Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 29
The wind cut through the rigging, and the boat cut through the sea.
What happens: cut · To what, where: wind, boat
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wind | acl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 rigging | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rigging | det |
| 6 | rigging | rigging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 boat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 boat | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boat | det |
| 10 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wind | conj |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 boat | acl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | participle | the wind and the boat not said here | through the rigging | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through rigging=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cut | participle | the boat not said here | through the sea | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through sea=Patient |
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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