Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 7
As soon as we arrived at the port to which the ship was bound, I left it, and went on shore at a place far towards the north.
Who acts: we, ship, I · What happens: arrive, be, leave, go · To what, where: port, ship, shore
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, I), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 port | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 port | det |
| 8 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 bound | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bound | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bound | cop |
| 14 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 port | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 left | nsubj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 shore | case |
| 23 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 went | advmod |
| 28 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 30 north | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 north | det |
| 30 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 far | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | we | the port | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the ship | to the port; bound property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | I | ship | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | we not said here | shore | at a place; far property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
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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