Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 100
He found himself on one of the many circumjacent mountain-ridges with which we are acquainted by means of Dr. Madler's “Map of the Moon.”
Who acts: watchman, one · What happens: find, acquaint, mean · To what, where: watchman, we
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 means | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ridges | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ridges | det |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ridges | amod |
| 9 | circumjacent | circumjacent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ridges | amod |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ridges | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 mountain | punct |
| 12 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 acquainted | obl |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 acquainted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 acquainted | aux:pass |
| 17 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ridges | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 acquainted | obl |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Map | case |
| 21 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Madler | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Madler | Madler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Map | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Madler | case |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Map | punct |
| 25 | Map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Moon | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Moon | det |
| 28 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Map | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | watchman | watchman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||||
| 2 | acquaint speech: other | present · passive | we | with the many circumjacent mountain ridges | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | one of the many circumjacent mountain ridges | of Madler Dr.'s Map of the Moon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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