Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 143
But the captain, who was bringing it to him, was shipwrecked, and the money lost.
Who acts: captain · What happens: bring, shipwreck, lose · To what, where: captain, Eric, money
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 shipwrecked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 captain | det |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shipwrecked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bringing | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 bringing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bringing | aux |
| 7 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 captain | acl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bringing | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bringing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 captain | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shipwrecked | aux:pass |
| 13 | shipwrecked | shipwreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lost | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 money | det |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 shipwrecked | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 shipwrecked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · progressive | the captain | captain | Eric | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 2 | shipwreck | past · passive | the captain | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lose | participle · passive | the money | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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