Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 168
So Ib went in the ferry-boat from Aarhus to Copenhagen.
Who acts: Ib · What happens: go · To what, where: Copenhagen, ferry boat
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 boat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 6 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boat | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ferry | punct |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Aarhus | case |
| 10 | Aarhus | Aarhus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Copenhagen | case |
| 12 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ib | Copenhagen | the ferry boat | from Aarhus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from aarhus=Initial_Location to copenhagen=Destination |
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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