Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 14
But the steam-ship passed it by, and did not stop till it reached Bernex.
Who acts: steam ship, much · What happens: pass, not stop, reach · To what, where: much, Bernex
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steam ship, much), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 passed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 3 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ship | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 steam | punct |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 passed | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 passed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stop | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stop | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 stop | advmod |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | parataxis |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | advcl |
| 17 | Bernex | Bernex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the steam ship | much | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not stop | past · do-support | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | reach | past | much | Bernex | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bernex=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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