Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 21

He went to sea in a wretched vessel, and sat at the helm, while the skipper sat over the grog-can.

Who acts: boy, skipper · What happens: go, sit · To what, where: wretched vessel, helm

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, skipper), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 sea	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 vessel	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vessel	det
7	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vessel	amod
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 helm	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 helm	det
14	helm	helm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 sat	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 skipper	det
18	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	24 can	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 can	det
22	grog	grog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 can	nsubj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 grog	punct
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	boy	a wretched vessel	to sea	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
2	sit	past		the helm		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at helm=Location
3	sit	past	the skipper			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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