Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 89
They knew that they were here to be exhibited, and that they had made the somewhat toilsome journey hither in tubs filled with water; and they thought with dismay of the land-sickness from which they had suffered so cruelly on the railway.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: know, exhibit, make, fill, think, suffer · To what, where: eyes, toilsome journey, tubs, land sickness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 exhibited | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exhibited | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 exhibited | aux |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 exhibited | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 exhibited | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 exhibited | aux:pass |
| 9 | exhibited | exhibit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 journey | det |
| 17 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 18 toilsome | advmod |
| 18 | toilsome | toilsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 journey | amod |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 20 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 22 tubs | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tubs | case |
| 22 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 journey | nmod |
| 23 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tubs | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 thought | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 thought | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 thought | nsubj |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 dismay | case |
| 31 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thought | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 sickness | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sickness | det |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sickness | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 land | punct |
| 36 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dismay | nmod |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 suffered | obl |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 suffered | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 suffered | aux |
| 41 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 sickness | acl:relcl |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 cruelly | advmod |
| 43 | cruelly | cruelly | ADV | _ | 41 suffered | advmod |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 railway | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 railway | det |
| 46 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 suffered | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | eyes = eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | exhibit | past · passive | eyes = eye | here | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | eyes = eye | the toilsome journey | tubs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | |||
| 4 | fill | participle | tubs not said here | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | eyes = eye | with dismay of the land sickness | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | suffer | past · perfect | eyes = eye | the land sickness | on the railway; cruelly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 7 | dismay | the land sickness | nom dismay «feeling transitive»: of=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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