Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 113
The watchman's spirit understood the language of the inhabitants of the moon pretty well.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: understand · To what, where: language
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 (spirit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 watchman | det |
| 2 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 watchman | case |
| 4 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understood | nsubj |
| 5 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 language | det |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understood | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 inhabitants | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 inhabitants | det |
| 10 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 language | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 moon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moon | det |
| 13 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inhabitants | nmod |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 understood | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the watchman's spirit | the language of the inhabitants of the moon | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |
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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