Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 37
I once wanted to fit out a ship to sail round the world, but I did not accomplish it, though most likely I might have done so.
Who acts: I · What happens: want, fit out, sail, not accomplish, do · To what, where: ship, world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 wanted | advmod |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fit | mark |
| 5 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 fit | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fit | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sail | mark |
| 10 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fit | advcl |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sail | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 accomplish | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 accomplish | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 accomplish | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 accomplish | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 accomplish | advmod |
| 19 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 accomplish | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 done | punct |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 done | mark |
| 23 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 likely | nsubj |
| 24 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 28 done | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 done | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 done | aux |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 done | aux |
| 28 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 accomplish | parataxis |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 done | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | I | once property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fit out not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a ship | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sail | to-infinitive | I not said here | the world | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round world=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | not accomplish | past · do-support | I | ship | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | do | might · perfect | I | likely property | vn act-114-1 «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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