Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 74

Aphtanides knew how to manage our boat, and I often sat in it, with my little Anastasia, while it glided on through the water, swift as a bird flying through the air.

Who acts: Aphtanides, I, boat, bird · What happens: know, manage, sit, glide on, fly · To what, where: boat, water, air

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aphtanides, I, boat, bird), 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	Aphtanides	Aphtanides	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 manage	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 manage	mark
5	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	xcomp
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 boat	nmod:poss
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 manage	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Anastasia	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 Anastasia	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Anastasia	nmod:poss
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Anastasia	amod
19	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 glided	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 glided	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 glided	nsubj
23	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	23 glided	compound:prt
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glided	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 swift	punct
29	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 water	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 bird	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bird	det
32	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glided	obl
33	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 bird	acl
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 air	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 air	det
36	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flying	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Aphtanides				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	manage	to-infinitive	Aphtanides not said here	our boat			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	sit	past	I		boat	with my little Anastasia; often property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
4	glide on	past	boat		the water and swift	as a bird	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory
5	fly	gerund	a bird not said here		the air		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location

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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