Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 54
The ships sailed by and saluted the castle with the boom of the cannon, and Kronenburg returned the salute, "Boom, boom."
Who acts: ships, Kronenburg · What happens: sail, salute, return, boom · To what, where: castle, salute, cannon
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, Kronenburg), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ships | det |
| 2 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 sailed | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saluted | cc |
| 6 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saluted | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 boom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boom | det |
| 11 | boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saluted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cannon | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cannon | det |
| 14 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boom | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 returned | cc |
| 17 | Kronenburg | Kronenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 salute | det |
| 20 | salute | salute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Boom | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Boom | punct |
| 23 | Boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 salute | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 boom | punct |
| 25 | boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Boom | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | the ships | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | salute | past | the ships not said here | the castle | with the boom of the cannon | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic | |||
| 3 | return | past | Kronenburg | the salute | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salute=Theme | ||||
| 4 | boom | the cannon | nom boom «event transitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/50/54/