Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 20
My ships are often frozen in, but in my offices it is warm and comfortable.
Who acts: number · What happens: freeze, be · To what, where: ships, offices
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 ships | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 frozen | aux:pass |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 frozen | advmod |
| 5 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 frozen | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 warm | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 warm | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 offices | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 offices | nmod:poss |
| 11 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 warm | obl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 warm | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 warm | cop |
| 14 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 frozen | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 comfortable | cc |
| 16 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 warm | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frozen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present · passive | My ships | often property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | present | number | my offices | warm property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | number not said here | tree rules |
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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