Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 1
Some years ago, large ships were sent towards the north pole, to explore the distant coasts, and to try how far men could penetrate into those unknown regions.
Who acts: far men · What happens: send, explore, try, penetrate · To what, where: large ships, distant coasts, unknown regions
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (far men), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 years | det |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 sent | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ships | amod |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | aux:pass |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 pole | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pole | det |
| 11 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pole | compound |
| 12 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 explore | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 explore | mark |
| 15 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sent | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 coasts | det |
| 17 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 coasts | amod |
| 18 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 explore | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 try | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 try | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 try | mark |
| 22 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 explore | conj |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 far | advmod |
| 24 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 men | amod |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 penetrate | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 penetrate | aux |
| 27 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 try | ccomp |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 regions | case |
| 29 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 regions | det |
| 30 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 regions | amod |
| 31 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 penetrate | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | large ships | towards the north pole; ago property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | explore | to-infinitive | the distant coasts | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent coast=Location | |||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | penetrate | could | far men | that unknown regions | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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