Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 90
The next morning the ship sailed into the harbor of a beautiful town belonging to the king whom the prince was going to visit.
Who acts: ship, beautiful town, prince · What happens: sail, belong, go, visit · To what, where: harbor, king
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, beautiful town, prince), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sailed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sailed | nsubj |
| 6 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 harbor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 harbor | det |
| 9 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sailed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 town | amod |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 harbor | nmod |
| 14 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 town | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belonging | obl |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 going | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 going | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 king | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 visit | mark |
| 24 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 going | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | the ship | the harbor of a beautiful town | morning | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into harbor=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | belong | gerund | a beautiful town not said here | to the king | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | the prince | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | visit | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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