Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 10
On three sides you find yourself surrounded by cloistered walks.
Who acts: you, yourself · What happens: find, surround, cloister · To what, where: yourself, three sides
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, yourself), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 sides | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sides | nummod |
| 3 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 find | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 find | xcomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 walks | case |
| 9 | cloistered | cloister | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 walks | amod |
| 10 | walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | you | yourself | three sides | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | surround | participle | yourself not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cloister | participle | vn concealment-16 «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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