Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 80
In the neighborhood of Eisenach stretches a ridge of stony mountains, one of which has a rounded outline, and shows itself above the rest without tree, bush, or grass on its barren summits.
What happens: stretch, have, round, show · To what, where: ridge, rounded outline, outline, rest
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 neighborhood | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 neighborhood | det |
| 3 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretches | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Eisenach | case |
| 5 | Eisenach | Eisenach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 neighborhood | nmod |
| 6 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ridge | det |
| 8 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretches | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mountains | case |
| 10 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mountains | amod |
| 11 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ridge | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ridge | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 has | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 outline | det |
| 18 | rounded | round | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 outline | amod |
| 19 | outline | outline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shows | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shows | cc |
| 22 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stretches | conj |
| 23 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 shows | obj |
| 24 | above | above | ADP | _ | 26 rest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rest | det |
| 26 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shows | obl |
| 27 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rest | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bush | punct |
| 30 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rest | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 grass | punct |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 grass | cc |
| 33 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shows | obl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 summits | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 summits | nmod:poss |
| 36 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 summits | amod |
| 37 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 grass | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stretches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | present | a ridge of stony mountains | in the neighborhood of Eisenach | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient in neighborhood=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a rounded outline | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outline=Patient | |||||
| 3 | round | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | show | present | outline | the rest without tree and bush | grass on grass's barren summits obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient |
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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