Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 93
He is blowing soap-bubbles.
Who acts: brother · What happens: blow · To what, where: soap bubbles
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blowing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 blowing | aux |
| 3 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bubbles | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 soap | punct |
| 6 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blowing | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present · progressive | brother | soap bubbles | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bubble=Patient |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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