Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 29

I steer by them, so as not to drive into the sea; and you see that is why the trees are remarkable.'

Who acts: I, you, that, trees · What happens: steer, not drive, see, be · To what, where: sea

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, that, trees), 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	2 steer	nsubj
2	steer	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 steer	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drive	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 drive	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 drive	mark
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 drive	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 drive	mark
10	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 steer	parataxis
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drive	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 steer	parataxis
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 why	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 why	cop
20	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 see	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trees	det
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 remarkable	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 remarkable	cop
24	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 why	advcl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 steer	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 steer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	steer	present	I		by trees = tree	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by they=Destination
2	not drive	to-infinitive		the sea		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into sea=Trajectory
3	see	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	that		why property	tree rules
5	is	present	the trees		remarkable property	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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