Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 39
“As to a pavement, I can find no traces of one, and all the lamps, it seems, have gone to sleep.”
Who acts: other, it, lamps · What happens: find, seem, go, sleep · To what, where: traces, lamps
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, it, lamps), 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 | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 pavement | case |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 2 As | fixed |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pavement | det |
| 5 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pavement | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 traces | det |
| 11 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 traces | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gone | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gone | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 lamps | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lamps | det |
| 18 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lamps | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seems | nsubj |
| 21 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lamps | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lamps | punct |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | aux |
| 24 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 find | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 sleep | mark |
| 26 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gone | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | can | the other = other | no traces of one | as a pavement | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent trace=Theme as pavement=Attribute | |||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present | it | all lamps not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lamp=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · perfect | all lamps | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | all lamps not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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