Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 35
"Heaven help us!" cried the boy at the helm, as the boat heeled over and lay on its beam ends.
Who acts: Heaven, boy, beam, boat · What happens: help, cry, heel over, lay, end, beam · To what, where: us, helm, boat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Heaven, boy, beam, boat), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 2 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 helm | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 helm | det |
| 12 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 boat | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 boat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boat | det |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 17 | heeled | heel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 boat | acl |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 heeled | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lay | cc |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 heeled | conj |
| 21 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 24 ends | mark |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 beam | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ends | nsubj |
| 24 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lay | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | infinitive | Heaven | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the boy | the helm | as the boat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | heel over | participle | the boat not said here | over property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lay | infinitive | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | end | present | boat's beam | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | beam | boat | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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