Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 31
Yesterday I looked upon a bay on the eastern coast of Denmark.
Who acts: I · What happens: look · To what, where: eastern coast
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 bay | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bay | det |
| 6 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 coast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coast | det |
| 9 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coast | amod |
| 10 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Denmark | case |
| 12 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 coast | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | I | the eastern coast of Denmark | yesterday | upon a bay | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon bay=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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