Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 41
Out in the river lay the ships, icebound, and forsaken by their crews; a screaming crow represented the only living creature on board.
Who acts: screaming crow · What happens: lie, forsake, scream, represent · To what, where: ships, river, only living creature, board
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (screaming crow), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 river | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 river | det |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ships | det |
| 7 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 icebound | punct |
| 9 | icebound | icebound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ships | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forsaken | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forsaken | cc |
| 12 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lay | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 crews | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 crews | nmod:poss |
| 15 | crews | crew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forsaken | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 represented | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 crow | det |
| 18 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 crow | amod |
| 19 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 represented | nsubj |
| 20 | represented | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 creature | det |
| 22 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 creature | amod |
| 23 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 creature | amod |
| 24 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 represented | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 board | case |
| 26 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 creature | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the ships and icebound | the river | out property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ship=Theme | |||
| 2 | forsake | participle | by ships's crews | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | represent | past | a screaming crow | the only living creature | board | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot creature=Theme |
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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