Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 17
There is plenty in the kitchen--dead game and poultry, hams and sausages; and fat fish swim in the ponds without.
Who acts: plenty, fat fish · What happens: be, swim · To what, where: kitchen, ponds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, fat fish), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 kitchen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kitchen | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 game | punct |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 game | amod |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kitchen | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 poultry | cc |
| 11 | poultry | poultry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 game | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hams | punct |
| 13 | hams | ham | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 game | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sausages | cc |
| 15 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hams | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 swim | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 swim | cc |
| 18 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fish | amod |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swim | nsubj |
| 20 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 ponds | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ponds | det |
| 23 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swim | obl |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 swim | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | plenty | the kitchen; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location | ||||
| 2 | swim | present | fat fish | the ponds | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Trajectory |
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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