Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 189
Then I saw that the river formed a great highway for the people who live in the sea.
Who acts: I, river, people · What happens: see, form, live · To what, where: great highway, sea
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, river, people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 formed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 formed | nsubj |
| 7 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 highway | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 highway | amod |
| 10 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 formed | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 formed | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 live | nsubj |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | form | past | the river | a great highway | for the people | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent highway=Result for people=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | live | present | the people | the sea | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
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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