Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 8
It is a wonderful thing to leave your own little corner at home, to hide yourself in a ship where there are sure to be some nice snug corners for shelter, then suddenly to find yourself thousands of miles away in a foreign land.
Who acts: ship · What happens: be, leave, hide, find · To what, where: wonderful thing, own little corner, home, yourself, ship, nice snug corners
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 corner | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 corner | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 corner | amod |
| 11 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hide | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hide | mark |
| 16 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leave | conj |
| 17 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 hide | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 ship | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ship | det |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hide | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 sure | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 sure | expl |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sure | cop |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ship | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 corners | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 corners | cop |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 corners | det |
| 28 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 corners | amod |
| 29 | snug | snug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 corners | compound |
| 30 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sure | ccomp |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 shelter | case |
| 32 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 corners | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 find | punct |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 find | advmod |
| 35 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 37 find | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 find | mark |
| 37 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | parataxis |
| 38 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 find | obj |
| 39 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 find | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 miles | case |
| 41 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 thousands | nmod |
| 42 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 find | advmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 land | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 land | det |
| 45 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 land | amod |
| 46 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 away | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ship | a wonderful thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | your own little corner | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent corner=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | yourself | a ship | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient in ship=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present | there | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | some nice snug corners | for shelter | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find | to-infinitive | yourself | then | away, suddenly property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme thousand=Attribute |
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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