Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 27

A dram is a great comfort, and two are better still, thought the skipper, while the boy sat at the helm, which he held fast in his hard seamed hands.

Who acts: dram, two, boy, helm · What happens: be, think, sit, hold, seam · To what, where: great comfort, skipper, helm, hard seamed hands

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 (dram, two, boy, helm), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dram	det
2	dram	dram	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comfort	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 comfort	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 comfort	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 comfort	amod
6	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 better	cc
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 better	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 comfort	conj
12	still	still	ADV	_	11 better	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 comfort	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 skipper	det
16	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 sat	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	parataxis
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 helm	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 helm	det
24	helm	helm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 held	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 held	nsubj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 held	nsubj
28	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 helm	acl:relcl
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 held	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 hands	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hands	nmod:poss
32	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hands	amod
33	seamed	seam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 hands	amod
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 held	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 comfort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a dram	a great comfort				tree rules
2	is	present	two			still	good property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past		the skipper				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot skipper=Theme
4	sit	past	the boy		the helm			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at helm=Location
5	hold	past	the helm		boy's hard seamed hands		fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
6	seam	participle						tree rules

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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