Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 6
We sailed on for many days and nights; the ship rocked fearfully, and we did not escape without a wetting.
Who acts: We, ship · What happens: sail, rock, not escape
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, ship), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sailed | nsubj |
| 2 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 sailed | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sailed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nights | cc |
| 8 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 days | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 rocked | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rocked | nsubj |
| 12 | rocked | rock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sailed | conj |
| 13 | fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 12 rocked | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 escape | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 escape | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 escape | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 escape | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 escape | advmod |
| 19 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rocked | conj |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 wetting | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wetting | det |
| 22 | wetting | wetting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 escape | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | We | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rock | past | the ship | fearfully property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not escape | past · do-support | we | without a wetting | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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