Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 77

A large ship, with three masts, lay becalmed on the water, with only one sail set; for not a breeze stiffed, and the sailors sat idle on deck or amongst the rigging.

Who acts: sailors · What happens: becalm, stiff, sit · To what, where: large ship, water, deck

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 (sailors), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ship	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ship	amod
3	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 becalmed	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 masts	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 masts	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 masts	nummod
7	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ship	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ship	punct
9	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 becalmed	aux
10	becalmed	becalm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 becalmed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 set	case
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 one	advmod
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 set	nummod
18	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	compound
19	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 becalmed	parataxis
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 stiffed	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 breeze	case
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 breeze	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 breeze	det
24	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stiffed	obl
25	stiffed	stiff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 becalmed	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sat	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sailors	det
29	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stiffed	advcl
31	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sat	xcomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 deck	case
33	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 rigging	cc
35	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	37 rigging	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rigging	det
37	rigging	rigging	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 deck	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 becalmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	becalm	present · passive		a large ship and three masts	the water		tree rules
2	stiff	participle				for a breeze	tree rules
3	sit	past	the sailors		deck or the rigging	idle property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=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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