Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 5
A steam-boat started from the town of Villeneuve, at one end of the lake of Geneva, and arrived at Bernex, a little town beyond Montreux, in about half an hour.
Who acts: steam boat · What happens: start, arrive · To what, where: town, 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 boat), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 2 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boat | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 steam | punct |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Villeneuve | case |
| 10 | Villeneuve | Villeneuve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 town | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 end | nummod |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lake | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Geneva | case |
| 19 | Geneva | Geneva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lake | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 arrived | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 arrived | cc |
| 22 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | parataxis |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Bernex | case |
| 24 | Bernex | Bernex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 arrived | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 town | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 town | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 town | amod |
| 28 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Bernex | appos |
| 29 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 30 Montreux | case |
| 30 | Montreux | Montreux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 town | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hour | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 hour | case |
| 33 | about | about | ADV | _ | 34 half | advmod |
| 34 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 36 hour | det:predet |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 hour | det |
| 36 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arrived | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | a steam boat | the town of Villeneuve | at one end of the lake of Geneva | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | Bernex | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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