Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 124
But at last, just as it went merrily out again, the two boys were called, and so angrily, that they hastened to obey, and ran away as fast as they could from the pond, so that the little ship was left to its fate.
Who acts: ship, trousers · What happens: go, call, hasten, obey, run away, leave · To what, where: last, two boys, little ship, fate · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ship, trousers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 went | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 10 out | advmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boys | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 boys | nummod |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 called | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 went | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 angrily | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 angrily | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 angrily | advmod |
| 21 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 17 called | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hastened | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 hastened | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hastened | nsubj |
| 25 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 obey | mark |
| 27 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hastened | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ran | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ran | cc |
| 30 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hastened | conj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 ran | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 fast | advmod |
| 33 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 ran | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 could | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 could | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 fast | advcl |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 pond | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pond | det |
| 39 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 could | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 left | punct |
| 41 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 47 left | mark |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 so | fixed |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 ship | det |
| 44 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 ship | amod |
| 45 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 left | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 left | aux:pass |
| 47 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 ran | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 fate | case |
| 49 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 fate | nmod:poss |
| 50 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 left | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | ship | last | again | out property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||
| 2 | call | past · passive | the two boys | angrily property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hasten | past | trousers | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | obey | to-infinitive | trousers not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run away | past | trousers not said here | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | leave | past · passive | the little ship | ship's fate | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to fate=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | fate | ship | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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