Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 100
And there is an Elder Tree standing beside it; and the cock is scraping away the earth for the hens, look, how he struts!
Who acts: Elder Tree, cock, you · What happens: be, stand, scrape away, look, strut · To what, where: house, earth
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elder Tree, cock, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 look | advcl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Tree | det |
| 5 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tree | compound |
| 6 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Tree | acl |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 standing | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 scraping | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 scraping | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cock | det |
| 13 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scraping | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 scraping | aux |
| 15 | scraping | scrape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 is | advcl |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 scraping | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scraping | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 hens | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hens | det |
| 21 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 scraping | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 struts | punct |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 struts | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 struts | nsubj |
| 27 | struts | strut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 look | conj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a Elder Tree | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | a Elder Tree not said here | house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location | ||||
| 3 | scrape away | present · progressive | the cock | the earth | for the hens; away property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient | |||
| 4 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | strut | present | cock | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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