Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 10
Once the neighbor's little girl, Joanna, dreamed that she was sailing in a boat, and the boy--Knud was his name--waded out in the water to join her, and the water came up to his neck, and at last closed over his head, and in a moment he had disappeared.
Who acts: Joanna, Knud, water, boy · What happens: dream, sail, be, wade out, join, come up · To what, where: boat, name, boy, water, Knud, neck
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joanna, Knud, water, boy), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 6 girl | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 neighbor | det |
| 3 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 girl | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 neighbor | case |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dreamed | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Joanna | punct |
| 8 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 girl | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 girl | punct |
| 10 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 sailing | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sailing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sailing | aux |
| 14 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 dreamed | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sailing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 waded | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 waded | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 waded | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 name | punct |
| 23 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 name | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 name | cop |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 boy | conj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 waded | punct |
| 28 | waded | wade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 dreamed | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 waded | compound:prt |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 waded | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 join | mark |
| 34 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 waded | advcl |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 join | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 came | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 came | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 water | det |
| 39 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 came | nsubj |
| 40 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dreamed | conj |
| 41 | up | up | ADV | _ | 40 came | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 neck | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 neck | nmod:poss |
| 44 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 came | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 closed | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 closed | cc |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 last | case |
| 48 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 closed | obl |
| 49 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 dreamed | parataxis |
| 50 | over | over | ADP | _ | 52 head | case |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 head | nmod:poss |
| 52 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 closed | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 disappeared | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 disappeared | cc |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 moment | case |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 moment | det |
| 57 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 disappeared | obl |
| 58 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 disappeared | nsubj |
| 59 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 disappeared | aux |
| 60 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 closed | conj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sail | past · progressive | Joanna | a boat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Knud | boy's name | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wade out | participle · passive | the boy and boy's name | the water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | join | to-infinitive | Knud | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||||
| 6 | come up | past | the water | boy's neck | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to neck=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | close | participle | last | over boy's head | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | disappear | past · perfect | boy | moment | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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