Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 8
It is crowded with passengers, for the transit is quicker than by sea.
Who acts: ship, transit · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, transit), 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 | 3 crowded | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 crowded | cop |
| 3 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 passengers | case |
| 5 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crowded | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quicker | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 quicker | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 transit | det |
| 9 | transit | transit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quicker | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 quicker | cop |
| 11 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 crowded | conj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quicker | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ship | with passengers; crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the transit | than sea; quick property | tree rules |
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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