Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 27

Then they returned again up the stream; and as the wind was favorable, two sails were hoisted, which carried the boat on as well as if two horses had been harnessed to it.

Who acts: eels, wind · What happens: return, be, hoist, carry on, harness · To what, where: stream, two sails, boat, two horses

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 (eels, wind), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 returned	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 returned	advmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 hoisted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hoisted	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 favorable	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 favorable	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 favorable	cop
14	favorable	favorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hoisted	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 favorable	punct
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 sails	nummod
17	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hoisted	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hoisted	aux:pass
19	hoisted	hoist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 returned	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carried	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 carried	nsubj
22	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hoisted	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boat	det
24	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	22 carried	compound:prt
26	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	22 carried	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 as	fixed
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 harnessed	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 harnessed	mark
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 horses	nummod
31	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 harnessed	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 harnessed	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 harnessed	aux:pass
34	harnessed	harness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 carried	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 harnessed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	eels = eel			the stream	then; again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up stream=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the wind					favorable property	tree rules
3	hoist	past · passive		two sails					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	carry on	past		the boat					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
5	harness	past · perfect · passive		two horses	boat				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to it=Co-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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