Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, sentence 15
The Old Bachelor's Nightcap The Old Church Bell The Old Grave-stone The Old House What the Old Man Does is Always Right The Old Street Lamp Ole-Luk-Oie, the Dream God Ole the Tower-keeper Our Aunt
Who acts: Old Man, Old Church Bell · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Old Church Bell, Always Right
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Man, Old Church Bell), 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 | 3 Bachelor | det |
| 2 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bachelor | amod |
| 3 | Bachelor | Bachelor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bell | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Bachelor | case |
| 5 | Nightcap | Nightcap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bell | nsubj |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bell | det |
| 7 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Bell | amod |
| 8 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bell | compound |
| 9 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Right | nsubj |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 11 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stone | amod |
| 12 | Grave | Grave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 stone | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Grave | punct |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Bell | nsubj |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 House | det |
| 16 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 House | amod |
| 17 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bell | appos |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 Does | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Man | det |
| 20 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Man | amod |
| 21 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Does | nsubj |
| 22 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Bell | acl:relcl |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Right | cop |
| 24 | Always | Always | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Right | compound |
| 25 | Right | Right | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 26 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Street | det |
| 27 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Street | amod |
| 28 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Right | nmod |
| 29 | Lamp | Lamp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Right | appos |
| 30 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Lamp | flat |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Luk | punct |
| 32 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Lamp | conj |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Oie | punct |
| 34 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Lamp | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Ole | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Ole | det |
| 37 | Dream | Dream | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Ole | compound |
| 38 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Ole | compound |
| 39 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Right | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 keeper | det |
| 41 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 keeper | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Tower | punct |
| 43 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Ole | appos |
| 44 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 Aunt | nmod:poss |
| 45 | Aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 keeper | appos |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the Old Man | the Old Bachelor's Old Church Bell | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Old Bachelor's Old Church Bell | Always Right and the Dream God Ole | the Old Street nmod | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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