Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 29
The boat was moored; and the two men, after desiring the children to sit still, both went on shore.
Who acts: two men · What happens: moor, desire, sit, go · To what, where: boat, children, shore
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 (two men), 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 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moored | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moored | aux:pass |
| 4 | moored | moor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 men | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 men | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 men | nummod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moored | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 desiring | punct |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 desiring | mark |
| 12 | desiring | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 men | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 children | det |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 desiring | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sit | mark |
| 16 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 desiring | advcl |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 sit | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 went | advmod |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 men | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 shore | case |
| 22 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moor | past · passive | the boat | the two men obl | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | desire | gerund | the two men not said here | the children | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot child=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | to-infinitive | the two men not said here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | shore | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=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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