Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 35
In a few minutes they found themselves deep in a thicket, and could no longer see the boat or the shore.
Who acts: needs · What happens: find, see · To what, where: needs, thicket, 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 (needs), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 11 thicket | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 thicket | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thicket | det |
| 11 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 longer | advmod |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 found | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boat | det |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 shore | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shore | det |
| 22 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 boat | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | needs = need | needs = need | a thicket | minute | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | ||
| 2 | see | could | needs = need not said here | the boat or the shore | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus |
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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