Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 15
In the morning the storm had ceased; but of the ship not a single fragment could be seen.
Who acts: storm · What happens: cease, see · To what, where: single fragment
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ceased | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ceased | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ceased | aux |
| 7 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 seen | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 fragment | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fragment | det |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fragment | amod |
| 16 | fragment | fragment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ceased | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past · perfect | the storm | morning | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | could · passive | a single fragment | of the ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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