Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 38

I was on board the Denmark, in Steene Bille's squadron; I had a man by my side whom even the cannon balls seemed to fear.

Who acts: I, Denmark, cannon balls · What happens: be, have, seem, fear · To what, where: Denmark, man

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 (I, Denmark, cannon balls), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 Denmark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Denmark	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 Denmark	case
4	board	board	ADP	_	6 Denmark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Denmark	det
6	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 squadron	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 squadron	case
9	Steene	Steene	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Bille	compound
10	Bille	Bille	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 squadron	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Bille	case
12	squadron	squadron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Denmark	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 Denmark	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 side	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 side	nmod:poss
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	nmod
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 seemed	obj
22	even	even	ADV	_	25 balls	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 balls	det
24	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 balls	compound
25	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 man	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fear	mark
28	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 seemed	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		the Denmark and Steene Bille's squadron		tree rules
2	have	past	the Denmark and Steene Bille's squadron	a man		by my side	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	seem	past	the cannon balls	a man			tree rules
4	fear	to-infinitive	the cannon balls not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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