Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 4
In winter no ships sail by, for the whole Sound is covered with ice as far as the Swedish coast, and has quite the appearance of a high-road.
Who acts: ships · What happens: sail, cover, have · To what, where: whole Sound, appearance
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 (ships), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 winter | case |
| 2 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sail | obl |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 ships | det |
| 4 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sail | nsubj |
| 5 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 sail | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 covered | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 covered | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sound | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Sound | amod |
| 11 | Sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 covered | aux:pass |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sail | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ice | case |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 far | advmod |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 covered | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 coast | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 coast | det |
| 20 | Swedish | Swedish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 coast | amod |
| 21 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 far | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 has | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 has | cc |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sail | conj |
| 25 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 appearance | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 appearance | det |
| 27 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 has | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 road | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 road | det |
| 30 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 road | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 high | punct |
| 32 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 appearance | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present | no ships | winter | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | present · passive | the whole Sound | with ice; far property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | no ships not said here | quite appearance of a high road | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient |
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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