Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 52
She had seen the ships, but at such a great distance that they looked like sea-gulls.
Who acts: turn, ships · What happens: see, look · To what, where: ships
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn, ships), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ships | det |
| 5 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seen | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 distance | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 distance | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 distance | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 distance | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 distance | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 distance | amod |
| 12 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 looked | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 distance | advcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 gulls | case |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gulls | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 19 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | turn | the ships | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | past | ships = ship | like sea gulls | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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