Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 35
One solitary tower only, and some remains of a wall, show where the castle once stood.
Who acts: remains, castle · What happens: show, stand
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remains, castle), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 tower | nummod |
| 2 | solitary | solitary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tower | compound |
| 3 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 tower | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 show | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 remains | det |
| 8 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 show | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remains | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
| 13 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tower | conj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 stood | advmod |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 show | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | some remains of a wall | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | stand | past | the castle | once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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