Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 42
The head of the house obtained a situation as mainmast in a very fine ship, and can sail round the world when he will.
Who acts: head · What happens: obtain, sail · To what, where: situation, world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obtained | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 head | nmod |
| 6 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 situation | det |
| 8 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obtained | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 mainmast | case |
| 10 | mainmast | mainmast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obtained | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 fine | advmod |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ship | amod |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mainmast | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sail | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sail | cc |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sail | aux |
| 19 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 obtained | parataxis |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sail | obl |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 will | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 will | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sail | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past | the head of the house | a situation | as mainmast in a fine ship | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset situation=Theme | |||
| 2 | sail | can | the world | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round world=Trajectory |
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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