Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 104
The way was very long and difficult, with many turnings and windings through towns and villages.
Who acts: way · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 difficult | cc |
| 7 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 long | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turnings | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 turnings | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 turnings | amod |
| 11 | turnings | turning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 long | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 windings | cc |
| 13 | windings | winding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turnings | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 towns | case |
| 15 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turnings | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 villages | cc |
| 17 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 towns | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the way | with many turnings through towns and villages and windings; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the way not said here | tree rules |
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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