Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 26
Thousands of seals sport there, the walrus shall lie at thy feet, and the hunt will be safe and merry!'
Who acts: sport, hunt, Thousands · What happens: lie, be, sport · To what, where: feet
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 (sport, hunt, Thousands), 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 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sport | nmod:poss |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 seals | case |
| 3 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 4 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lie | nsubj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sport | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sport | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walrus | det |
| 8 | walrus | walrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lie | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 lie | aux |
| 10 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lie | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 safe | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 safe | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hunt | det |
| 17 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 safe | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 safe | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 safe | cop |
| 20 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lie | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 merry | cc |
| 22 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 safe | conj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 lie | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | shall | Thousands of seals's sport | thy feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | future | the hunt | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the hunt not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | sport | Thousands of seals | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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