Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 123
Then the little ship sailed away; sometimes the current of the water seized it, but whenever it went too far from the shore one of the boys turned up his trousers, and went in after it, and brought it back to land.
Who acts: little ship, current, boys · What happens: sail away, seize, go, turn up, go in, bring back · To what, where: ship, one, shore, trousers, land
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little ship, current, boys), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ship | amod |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sailed | nsubj |
| 5 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 sailed | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 seized | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 current | det |
| 10 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 current | nmod |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sailed | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seized | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 18 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 went | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sailed | conj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 far | advmod |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 went | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 shore | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shore | det |
| 25 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 went | obl |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 turned | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boys | det |
| 29 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 turned | nsubj |
| 30 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | advcl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 turned | compound:prt |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 trousers | nmod:poss |
| 33 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 turned | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sailed | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 38 | after | after | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 went | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 brought | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 brought | cc |
| 42 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sailed | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 brought | obj |
| 44 | back | back | ADV | _ | 42 brought | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 land | case |
| 46 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 brought | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail away | past | the little ship | then | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seize | past | the current of the water | ship | sometimes property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | current | one | the shore | far, whenever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from shore=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | turn up | past | the boys | beetle's trousers | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trousers=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go in | past | the little ship not said here | after current | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring back | past | the little ship not said here | ship | land | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to land=Destination |
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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