Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 25
Yes, it is a pleasant summer tent, the sea,' observed the wife. '
Who acts: sea, pleasant summer tent · What happens: be, observe · To what, where: pleasant summer tent, wife
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 (sea, pleasant summer tent), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 tent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tent | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tent | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tent | det |
| 6 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tent | amod |
| 7 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tent | compound |
| 8 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 observed | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sea | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tent | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 observed | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 observed | punct |
| 14 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wife | det |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 observed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 observed | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sea | a pleasant summer tent and the sea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | observe | past | a pleasant summer tent and the sea | the wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
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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