Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 97
The sea gradually became calm, and on board a great ship that had withstood the tempest during the night, all the flags were displayed, as a token of joy and festivity. "
Who acts: sea, great ship · What happens: become, withstand, display · To what, where: great ship, tempest, flags
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, great ship), 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 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 3 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 4 became | advmod |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ship | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ship | cc |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 9 | board | board | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ship | amod |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 withstood | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 withstood | aux |
| 15 | withstood | withstand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 ship | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tempest | det |
| 17 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 withstood | obj |
| 18 | during | during | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 withstood | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 displayed | punct |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 flags | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flags | det |
| 24 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 displayed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 displayed | aux:pass |
| 26 | displayed | display | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 withstood | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 token | punct |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 token | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 token | det |
| 30 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 displayed | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 joy | case |
| 32 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 token | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 festivity | cc |
| 34 | festivity | festivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 token | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ship | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ship | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the sea | a great ship | calm, gradually property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | withstand | past · perfect | a great ship | the tempest | night | tree rules | |||
| 3 | display | past · passive | all flags | tree rules |
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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