Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 169

To him who had only sailed once or twice on the river near his own home, this seemed like a voyage on the ocean; and at length he arrived at Copenhagen.

Who acts: this, Ib · What happens: sail, seem, arrive · To what, where: Ib, river, length

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 (this, 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 him	case
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sailed	obl
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sailed	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sailed	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 sailed	advmod
6	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 sailed	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 twice	cc
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 once	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sailed	obl
13	near	near	ADP	_	16 home	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 home	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 home	amod
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 river	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sailed	parataxis
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 voyage	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 voyage	det
22	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seemed	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 ocean	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ocean	det
25	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 voyage	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 arrived	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 arrived	cc
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 length	case
29	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 arrived	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 arrived	nsubj
31	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seemed	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 Copenhagen	case
33	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 arrived	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sail	past · perfect		Ib	the river near Ib's own home	once property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to he=Trajectory
2	seem	past	this			like a voyage on the ocean	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	arrive	past	Ib		length	at Copenhagen	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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