Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 20
A negro leads a young lion which he has brought, by a string.
Who acts: negro, string · What happens: lead, bring · To what, where: young lion
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (negro, string), 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 negro | det |
| 2 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leads | nsubj |
| 3 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lion | amod |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leads | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lion | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 string | punct |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 string | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 string | det |
| 14 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | a negro | a young lion | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect · passive | a string | a young lion | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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