Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 100
Now the lovers kneel down, and one of them sings:
Who acts: lovers, one · What happens: kneel down, sing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovers, one), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 kneel | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lovers | det |
| 3 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kneel | nsubj |
| 4 | kneel | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sings | advcl |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 kneel | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sings | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sings | cc |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sings | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 sings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel down | present | the lovers | now | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | one of boots | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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