Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 11
I have witnessed the homage paid to her in the greatest cities of Europe.
Who acts: I, homage · What happens: witness, pay · To what, where: Venus, greatest cities
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh 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, homage), 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 witnessed | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 witnessed | aux |
| 3 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 homage | det |
| 5 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paid | nsubj |
| 6 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 witnessed | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 paid | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cities | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cities | det |
| 11 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 cities | amod |
| 12 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 paid | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Europe | case |
| 14 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cities | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 witnessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | witness | present · perfect | I | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pay | past | the homage | Venus | the greatest cities of Europe | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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