Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 31
She came at length to a great lake, on which there was neither ship nor boat to be seen.
Who acts: Death, ship · What happens: come, be, see · To what, where: length
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 length | case |
| 4 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lake | amod |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 was | obl |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 14 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 ship | cc:preconj |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 boat | cc |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ship | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 boat | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Death | length | to a great lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | be | past | ship nor boat | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive · passive | ship nor boat not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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