Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 23
The prince was lying half-dead in his ship, when it sank at last with a terrible shock into the branches of a large tree in the wood.
Who acts: prince, ship · What happens: lie, sink · To what, where: ship, last
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lying | aux |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 dead | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 half | punct |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lying | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ship | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sank | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 sank | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sank | nsubj |
| 14 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lying | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sank | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 shock | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shock | det |
| 19 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shock | amod |
| 20 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 last | nmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 branches | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 branches | det |
| 23 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sank | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tree | amod |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 branches | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 wood | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wood | det |
| 30 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tree | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | the prince | prince's ship | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ship=Location | |||
| 2 | sink | past | ship | last with a terrible shock | into the branches of a large tree in the wood | 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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