Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 55
A man leans against the mast, casting a last glance towards the Island Hueen.
Who acts: man · What happens: lean, cast · To what, where: mast, last glance
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 (man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leans | nsubj |
| 3 | leans | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 mast | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mast | det |
| 6 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leans | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 casting | punct |
| 8 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 leans | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 glance | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 glance | amod |
| 11 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 casting | obj |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 Hueen | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hueen | det |
| 14 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Hueen | compound |
| 15 | Hueen | Hueen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 casting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leans | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean | present | a man | the mast | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against mast=Location | ||||
| 2 | cast | gerund | a man not said here | a last glance | towards the Island Hueen | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme towards hueen=Destination |
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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