Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 9
The stage represents a room, as every one may see.
Who acts: stage, one · What happens: represent, see · To what, where: room
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 (stage, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stage | det |
| 2 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 represents | nsubj |
| 3 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 represents | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 represents | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present | the stage | a room | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | may | every one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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