Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 64
It remained on the shore covered with boards,--a Noah's ark that never got to the water--Whir-r-r-r--and that was a pity.
Who acts: hint, Whir r, that · What happens: remain, cover, not get, r, be · To what, where: shore, ark, pity
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hint, Whir r, that), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 shore | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shore | det |
| 5 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obl |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shore | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 boards | case |
| 8 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 covered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ark | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 ark | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Noah | det |
| 12 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ark | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Noah | case |
| 14 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shore | appos |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 got | obl |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 got | advmod |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ark | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 r | punct |
| 22 | Whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 r | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Whir | punct |
| 24 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 r | nsubj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 r | punct |
| 26 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 r | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 r | punct |
| 28 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obl |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 pity | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 pity | cc |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 pity | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 pity | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 pity | det |
| 34 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | hint | the shore | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | the shore not said here | with boards | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with board=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not get | past | a Noah's ark | to the water result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to water=Result | ||||
| 4 | r | Whir r | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | that | a pity | tree rules |
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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