Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 10
On her head she carried an earthen pitcher of antique shape filled with water.
Who acts: beam · What happens: carry, fill · To what, where: earthen pitcher, head, antique shape
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beam), 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 head | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pitcher | det |
| 7 | earthen | earthen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pitcher | amod |
| 8 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 shape | case |
| 10 | antique | antique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shape | amod |
| 11 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pitcher | nmod |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 shape | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | beam | a earthen pitcher of antique shape | beam's head | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | antique shape not said here | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
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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