Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 3
All around, as far as the eye could reach, nothing could be seen but fields of ice, in which the ship remained stuck fast.
Who acts: eye, ship · What happens: reach, see, remain · To what, where: nothing
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 (eye, ship), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 2 around | advmod |
| 2 | around | around | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 around | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 seen | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 reach | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eye | det |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reach | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 reach | aux |
| 10 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 far | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 far | punct |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fields | cc |
| 17 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seen | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ice | case |
| 19 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fields | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 remained | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 remained | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ship | det |
| 24 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 remained | nsubj |
| 25 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | conj |
| 26 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 remained | xcomp |
| 27 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 remained | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | could | the eye | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | could · passive | nothing | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | the ship | fast, stuck property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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