Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 20
Hitherto he had been a land crab; the land at last cast him adrift.
Who acts: boy, land crab · What happens: be, cast · To what, where: land crab, boy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, land crab), 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 | Hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 7 crab | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 crab | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crab | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 crab | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crab | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crab | compound |
| 7 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cast | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 land | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crab | appos |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 land | nmod |
| 13 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cast | obj |
| 15 | adrift | adrift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cast | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | boy | a land crab | hitherto property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cast | past | a land crab | boy | adrift property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product |
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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