Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 54
And he, the pale fugitive, sang of the ideal.
Who acts: wind · What happens: sing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sang | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fugitive | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fugitive | det |
| 5 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fugitive | amod |
| 6 | fugitive | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 he | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fugitive | punct |
| 8 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ideal | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ideal | det |
| 11 | ideal | ideal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sang | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | wind | of the ideal | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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