Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 28
As they sailed on, they came by chance to the place where the boatman's assistant lived, at a little distance from the bank of the river.
Who acts: horses, assistant · What happens: sail, come, live
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 (horses, assistant), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 sailed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 chance | case |
| 9 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chance | nmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 lived | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boatman | det |
| 15 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 assistant | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 boatman | case |
| 17 | assistant | assistant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 distance | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 distance | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 distance | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 distance | amod |
| 23 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 bank | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bank | det |
| 26 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 distance | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 river | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 river | det |
| 29 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bank | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | horses = horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | horses = horse | by chance to the place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location | ||||
| 3 | live | past | the boatman's assistant | at a little distance from the bank of the river | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location |
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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