Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 53
The boat whirled round three or four times, and then filled with water to the very edge; nothing could save it from sinking.
Who acts: boat · What happens: whirl, fill, save, sink · To what, where: boat, edge
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 save | nsubj |
| 3 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 boat | acl |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 three | advmod |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 four | cc |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 three | conj |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 whirled | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 filled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 filled | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 filled | advmod |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 boat | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 edge | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 edge | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 edge | advmod |
| 18 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 save | punct |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 save | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 save | aux |
| 22 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 save | obj |
| 24 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 25 sinking | mark |
| 25 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 save | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whirl | participle | the boat not said here | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | participle | the boat not said here | then | with water; to the edge | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | |||
| 3 | save | could | the boat | edge | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sink | gerund | the boat not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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