Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 37
It sank at once with mouse and man," as the saying is.
Who acts: beam, saying · What happens: sink, be
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 (beam, saying), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sank | nsubj |
| 2 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 sank | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mouse | case |
| 6 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sank | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 man | cc |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mouse | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mouse | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mouse | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 is | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 saying | det |
| 13 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sank | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | beam | with mouse and man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with mouse=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | the saying | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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