Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 12
The ship, with swelling sails and a favorable wind, glided away smoothly and lightly over the calm sea.
Who acts: ship · What happens: glide away · To what, where: calm sea
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship), 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 | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glided | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sails | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sails | case |
| 5 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sails | compound |
| 6 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ship | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wind | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 9 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wind | amod |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sails | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ship | punct |
| 12 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 glided | advmod |
| 14 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 12 glided | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lightly | cc |
| 16 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 14 smoothly | conj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 19 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sea | amod |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glided | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide away | past | the ship | the calm sea | away, smoothly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory |
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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