Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 29
The boat in which they were to return had broken loose, and was floating away from the island.
Who acts: woods · What happens: return, break, float away · To what, where: boat, island
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods), 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 | 10 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 return | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 return | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 return | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 boat | acl:relcl |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 broken | aux |
| 10 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 10 broken | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 floating | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 floating | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 floating | aux |
| 15 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 broken | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 floating | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floating | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | woods = wood | the boat not said here | the boat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | break | past · perfect · passive | the boat | loose property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | float away | past · progressive | the island | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from island=Trajectory |
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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