Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 9
They sailed in hosts before the Ice Maiden as she came out of her palace of ice.
Who acts: forms, moon · What happens: sail, come out · To what, where: hosts, palace
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forms, moon), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sailed | nsubj |
| 2 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 hosts | case |
| 4 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sailed | obl |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 Maiden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Maiden | det |
| 7 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Maiden | compound |
| 8 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sailed | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sailed | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ice | case |
| 17 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 palace | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | forms = form | hosts | before the Ice Maiden | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come out | past | moon | moon's palace of ice | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient palace=Result |
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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