Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 43
Amidst shouting and cheers the ships were tarred and rigged, and then they sailed to foreign lands.
Who acts: Amidst, ships · What happens: shout, cheer, tar, rig, sail · To what, where: ships, foreign lands
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 (Amidst, ships), 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 | Amidst | Amidst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shouting | nsubj |
| 2 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cheers | cc |
| 4 | cheers | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shouting | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ships | det |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tarred | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tarred | aux:pass |
| 8 | tarred | tar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cheers | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rigged | cc |
| 10 | rigged | rig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tarred | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sailed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sailed | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 sailed | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sailed | nsubj |
| 15 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tarred | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 lands | case |
| 17 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lands | amod |
| 18 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sailed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shouting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | gerund | Amidst | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cheer | present | Amidst not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tar | past · passive | the ships | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 4 | rig | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | sail | past | ships = ship | foreign lands | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to land=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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