Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 5
The bridegroom of the sea is dead, his palace and his city are his mausoleum!
Who acts: bridegroom, palace · What happens: be · To what, where: mausoleum
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 (bridegroom, palace), 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 bridegroom | det |
| 2 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bridegroom | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mausoleum | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mausoleum | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 city | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 city | nmod:poss |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 palace | conj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mausoleum | cop |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mausoleum | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mausoleum | mausoleum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dead | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the bridegroom of the sea | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | bridegroom's palace and bridegroom's city | bridegroom's mausoleum | tree rules |
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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