Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 1
"I was gliding over the Luneburg Heath," the Moon said. "
Who acts: Moon · What happens: glide, say · To what, where: Luneburg Heath · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gliding | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gliding | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gliding | aux |
| 4 | gliding | glide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 Heath | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Heath | det |
| 7 | Luneburg | Luneburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Heath | compound |
| 8 | Heath | Heath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gliding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gliding | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Moon | det |
| 12 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide in a quote | past · progressive | the Moon = moon | the Luneburg Heath | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over heath=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Moon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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