Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 3
St. Florian was represented pouring water on the burning house, and the Lord hung bleeding on the great cross by the wayside.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: represent, pour, hang, bleed · To what, where: St., water, burning house, great cross
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord), 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 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 represented | nsubj |
| 2 | Florian | Florian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 St. | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 represented | aux:pass |
| 4 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 represented | xcomp |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pouring | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 9 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | compound |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pouring | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hung | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hung | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lord | det |
| 14 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hung | nsubj |
| 15 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 represented | conj |
| 16 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 hung | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 cross | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cross | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cross | amod |
| 20 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bleeding | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 wayside | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wayside | det |
| 23 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bleeding | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | past · passive | St. | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pour | gerund | water | the burning house | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | the Lord | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bleed | gerund | the Lord not said here | the great cross | by the wayside | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on cross=Destination |
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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