Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 54
A ship sails away, quitting the Danish shores.
Who acts: ship · What happens: sail away, quit · To what, where: Danish shores
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. 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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:12936): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sails | nsubj |
| 3 | sails | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 sails | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quitting | punct |
| 6 | quitting | quit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sails | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shores | det |
| 8 | Danish | Danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shores | amod |
| 9 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quitting | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sails | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail away | present | a ship | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | quit | gerund | a ship not said here | the Danish shores | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Source |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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