Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 30
The sails, filled by the wind, swelled out and carried them along in wild career.
Who acts: sails · What happens: fill, swell out, carry · To what, where: sails, wild career
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 (sails), 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 sails | det |
| 2 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swelled | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sails | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sails | punct |
| 9 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 swelled | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 swelled | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 12 carried | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 career | case |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 career | amod |
| 17 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 swelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | the sails not said here | by the wind | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | swell out | past | the sails | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | carry | past | the sails not said here | sails = sail | wild career | along property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in career=Location |
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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