Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 69
* Sorbe, a very quiet little town, beautifully situated, surrounded by woods and lakes.
What happens: situate, surround · To what, where: quiet little town
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: 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 | _ | 2 Sorbe | punct |
| 2 | Sorbe | Sorbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 town | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 quiet | advmod |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 town | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 town | amod |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sorbe | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 situated | punct |
| 10 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 11 situated | advmod |
| 11 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 town | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 surrounded | punct |
| 13 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 situated | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 woods | case |
| 15 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 surrounded | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lakes | cc |
| 17 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 woods | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sorbe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | participle | a quiet little town not said here | beautifully property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | by woods and lakes | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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