Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 37
It was a long time ago, while the English fleet lay in the roads, on the second of April, when we showed that we were true, ancient Danes.
Who acts: face, English fleet, we · What happens: be, lie, show · To what, where: long time, roads · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, English fleet, we), 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 | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 time | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 lay | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fleet | det |
| 10 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fleet | amod |
| 11 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 roads | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 roads | det |
| 15 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 second | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 second | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 second | det |
| 19 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roads | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 April | case |
| 21 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 second | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 showed | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 showed | advmod |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 showed | nsubj |
| 25 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lay | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 true | mark |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 true | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 true | cop |
| 29 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 showed | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Danes | punct |
| 31 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Danes | amod |
| 32 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 true | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | face | a long time | ago property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the English fleet | the roads on the second of April | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location | ||||
| 3 | show | past | we | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | we | true property | tree rules |
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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