Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, sentence 18
A Story from the Sand-hills The Saucy Boy The Shadow The Shepherdess and the Sheep The Silver Shilling The Shirt-collar The Snow Man The Snow Queen The Snowdrop Something Soup from a Sausage Skewer The Storks The Storm Shakes the Shield The Story of a Mother The Sunbeam and the Captive The Swan's Nest The Swineherd
Who acts: Silver, Storks · What happens: shill, shake · To what, where: Shirt collar, Shield
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 (Silver, Storks), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Story | det |
| 2 | Story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hills | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hills | det |
| 5 | Sand | Sand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hills | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sand | punct |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Story | nmod |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Boy | det |
| 9 | Saucy | Saucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Boy | compound |
| 10 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hills | appos |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Shadow | det |
| 12 | Shadow | Shadow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Boy | appos |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Shepherdess | det |
| 14 | Shepherdess | Shepherdess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Shadow | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Sheep | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sheep | det |
| 17 | Sheep | Sheep | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Boy | conj |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Silver | det |
| 19 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Story | conj |
| 20 | Shilling | shill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Silver | acl |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 collar | det |
| 22 | Shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 collar | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Shirt | punct |
| 24 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Shilling | obj |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Man | det |
| 26 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Man | compound |
| 27 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 collar | nmod |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Queen | det |
| 29 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Queen | compound |
| 30 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Man | conj |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Soup | det |
| 32 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Soup | compound |
| 33 | Something | Something | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Soup | compound |
| 34 | Soup | Soup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Queen | appos |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 Skewer | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 Skewer | det |
| 37 | Sausage | Sausage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Skewer | compound |
| 38 | Skewer | Skewer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Soup | nmod |
| 39 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Storks | det |
| 40 | Storks | Stork | PROPN | Number=Plur | 43 Shakes | nsubj |
| 41 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Storm | det |
| 42 | Storm | Storm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Shakes | nsubj |
| 43 | Shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Man | acl:relcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Shield | det |
| 45 | Shield | Shield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Shakes | obj |
| 46 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Story | det |
| 47 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Shield | appos |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Mother | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 Mother | det |
| 50 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Story | nmod |
| 51 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Sunbeam | det |
| 52 | Sunbeam | Sunbeam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 Nest | nsubj |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 Captive | cc |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Captive | det |
| 55 | Captive | Captive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Sunbeam | conj |
| 56 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 Swan | det |
| 57 | Swan | Swan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 Nest | nmod:poss |
| 58 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 57 Swan | case |
| 59 | Nest | Nest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Mother | nmod |
| 60 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 Swineherd | det |
| 61 | Swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 Nest | appos |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shill | gerund | the Silver not said here | the Shirt collar the Snow Man and the Snow Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | present | the Storks | the Shield | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shield=Patient |
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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