Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 94
*In these Russian (vapor) baths the person extends himself on a bank or form, and as he gets accustomed to the heat, moves to another higher up towards the ceiling, where, of course, the vapor is warmest.
Who acts: person, vapor · What happens: bath, extend, accustom, move, be · To what, where: Russian vapor, sanctuary, bank, another
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 (person, vapor), 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 | _ | 8 baths | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 vapor | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 vapor | det |
| 4 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vapor | amod |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 vapor | punct |
| 6 | vapor | vapor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 baths | obl |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 vapor | punct |
| 8 | baths | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 extends | nsubj |
| 11 | extends | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 baths | acl:relcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 extends | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 bank | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bank | det |
| 15 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 extends | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 form | cc |
| 17 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bank | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 accustomed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 accustomed | cc |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 gets | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gets | nsubj |
| 22 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 23 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 baths | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 heat | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 heat | det |
| 26 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 accustomed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 moves | punct |
| 28 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 baths | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 another | case |
| 30 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 moves | obl |
| 31 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 up | advmod |
| 32 | up | up | ADV | _ | 28 moves | advmod |
| 33 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 35 ceiling | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ceiling | det |
| 35 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 moves | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 where | punct |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 moves | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 of | punct |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 28 moves | advmod |
| 40 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 of | fixed |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 warmest | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 vapor | det |
| 43 | vapor | vapor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 warmest | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 warmest | cop |
| 45 | warmest | warm | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 moves | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 baths | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bath | present | this Russian vapor | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | extend | present | the person | sanctuary | a bank or form | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | accustom | present · passive | to the heat | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | move | present | another | towards the ceiling | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to another=Source towards ceiling=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the vapor | warm property | 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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