Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 14
The singer gaily mounted the ancient stage, and sang.
Who acts: singer · What happens: mount, sing · To what, where: ancient stage
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 (singer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 singer | det |
| 2 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 4 mounted | advmod |
| 4 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stage | det |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stage | amod |
| 7 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sang | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sang | cc |
| 10 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | the singer | the ancient stage | gaily property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Patient | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the singer not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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