Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 5
On the brow of the mountain yonder is perched, like a swallow's nest, a lonely convent of nuns.
What happens: perch · To what, where: brow
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: 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 brow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brow | det |
| 3 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 perched | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mountain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brow | nmod |
| 7 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 6 mountain | advmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 perched | aux:pass |
| 9 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nest | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 nest | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 swallow | det |
| 13 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nest | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 swallow | case |
| 15 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 perched | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 convent | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 convent | det |
| 18 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 convent | amod |
| 19 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nest | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 nuns | case |
| 21 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 convent | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 perched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | present · passive | the brow of the mountain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: on brow=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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