Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 16
* The word mahogany can be understood, in Danish, as having two meanings.
What happens: understand, have · To what, where: word mahogany, two meanings
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 7 understood | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mahogany | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mahogany | compound |
| 4 | mahogany | mahogany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 understood | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 understood | aux:pass |
| 7 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Danish | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Danish | case |
| 10 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 understood | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 having | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 having | mark |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 Danish | advcl |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 meanings | nummod |
| 15 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 having | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | can · passive | the word mahogany | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | two meanings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=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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