Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 22
I will deck the spot with thy kayak, and thy arrows, and the angekokk shall dance over it.
Who acts: I, angekokk · What happens: deck, dance · To what, where: spot, kayak
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, angekokk), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 deck | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 deck | aux |
| 3 | deck | deck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deck | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 kayak | case |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 kayak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kayak | kayak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deck | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arrows | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrows | cc |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 deck | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dance | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dance | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 angekokk | det |
| 16 | angekokk | angekokk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dance | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 dance | aux |
| 18 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 deck | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dance | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 deck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deck | future | I | the spot | with thy kayak; thy arrows obl | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=Destination with kayak=Theme | |||
| 2 | dance | shall | the angekokk | kayak | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location |
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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