Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 68
"The boat went down with them," continued the woman; "Hans the skipper and the boy were both drowned; so there's an end of them.
Who acts: boat, woman, Hans, end · What happens: go down, continue, drown, be · To what, where: Hans, skipper
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 (boat, woman, Hans, end), 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 | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 continued | advcl |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 continued | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hans | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hans | punct |
| 15 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 continued | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skipper | det |
| 17 | skipper | skipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 boy | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skipper | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 drowned | aux:pass |
| 22 | both | both | ADV | _ | 23 drowned | advmod |
| 23 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Hans | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 's | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 's | advmod |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 's | expl |
| 27 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 continued | parataxis |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 end | det |
| 29 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 's | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 end | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down in a quote | past | the boat | with woman; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | the woman | Hans | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | drown in a quote | past · passive | Hans not said here | the skipper and the boy | both property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | a end of woman | there | 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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