Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 78
It was an old, dilapidated, mouldering dovecot.
Who acts: name · What happens: be, dilapidate, moulder · To what, where: dovecot
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 old | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 old | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dilapidated | punct |
| 6 | dilapidated | dilapidate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 old | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mouldering | punct |
| 8 | mouldering | moulder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dilapidated | advcl |
| 9 | dovecot | dovecot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mouldering | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | name | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dilapidate | participle | name not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | moulder | gerund | name not said here | dovecot | tree rules |
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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