Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 13
A girl rests there: she has put down her heavy pails filled with water, the yoke with which she has carried them rests on one of her shoulders, and she leans against the mast of victory.
Who acts: girl, yoke · What happens: rest, put down, fill, carry, lean · To what, where: heavy pails, pails, water, mast
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 (girl, yoke), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rests | nsubj |
| 3 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rests | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | aux |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 rests | parataxis |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 put | compound:prt |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pails | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pails | amod |
| 12 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obj |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 pails | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yoke | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 yoke | det |
| 18 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rests | nsubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 carried | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carried | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 carried | aux |
| 23 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 yoke | acl:relcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carried | obj |
| 25 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 water | acl:relcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 rests | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 shoulders | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 30 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 one | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 leans | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 leans | cc |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 leans | nsubj |
| 34 | leans | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | conj |
| 35 | against | against | ADP | _ | 37 mast | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 mast | det |
| 37 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 leans | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 victory | case |
| 39 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mast | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rests | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present | a girl | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put down | present · perfect | girl | girl's heavy pails | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pail=Goal | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | girl's heavy pails not said here | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | carry | present · perfect | yoke | pails = pail | with the yoke | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | rest | present | the yoke | water not said here | on one of girl's shoulders | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent water=Theme on one=Location | |||
| 6 | lean | present | yoke | the mast of victory | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against mast=Location |
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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