Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 6
Here we will put up a book, there another, and there a third, in a sloping row.
Who acts: we · What happens: put up, slope · To what, where: book
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 (we), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 another | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 another | expl |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 there | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 put | expl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 third | det |
| 15 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 there | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 row | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 row | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 row | det |
| 19 | sloping | slope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 row | amod |
| 20 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 third | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up | future | we | a book | here; there | another obl | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent book=Goal | ||
| 2 | slope | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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