Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 100
To cross to the opposite shore was an undertaking fraught with danger to life and limb.
Who acts: opposite shore · What happens: cross, undertake, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opposite shore), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 cross | mark |
| 2 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 fraught | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 5 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shore | amod |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fraught | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fraught | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fraught | det |
| 9 | undertaking | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 fraught | amod |
| 10 | fraught | fraught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cross | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 danger | case |
| 12 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fraught | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 danger | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 limb | cc |
| 16 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fraught | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cross | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | to-infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | undertake | gerund | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the opposite shore | to a undertaking fraught and limb; with danger to life | 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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