Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 27
Has he not been creeping up that stalk these three days?
Who acts: forest, that · What happens: not creep up, stalk
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, that), 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 | Has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 creeping | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 creeping | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 creeping | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 creeping | aux |
| 5 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 creeping | compound:prt |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stalk | nsubj |
| 8 | stalk | stalk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 creeping | ccomp |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 days | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 days | nummod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stalk | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 creeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not creep up | present · perfect · progressive | forest | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stalk | present | that | day | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: 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: «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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