Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 63
In the royal city of Bavaria, many years after the bell had been removed from the tower and melted down, some metal was required for a monument in honor of one of the most celebrated characters which a German people or a German land could produce.
Who acts: German people · What happens: remove, melt down, require, celebrate, produce · To what, where: tower, metal, royal city, celebrated characters
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 (German people), 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 | _ | 4 city | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 city | amod |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 required | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Bavaria | case |
| 6 | Bavaria | Bavaria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 city | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 years | punct |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 removed | obl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 bell | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bell | det |
| 12 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 years | nmod |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 removed | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 removed | aux:pass |
| 15 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 city | parataxis |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 tower | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tower | det |
| 18 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 removed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 melted | cc |
| 20 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 removed | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 melted | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 city | punct |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 metal | det |
| 24 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 required | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 required | aux:pass |
| 26 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 monument | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 monument | det |
| 29 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 required | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 honor | case |
| 31 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 required | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 one | case |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 honor | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 characters | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 characters | det |
| 36 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 37 celebrated | advmod |
| 37 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 characters | amod |
| 38 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 one | nmod |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 produce | obj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 people | det |
| 41 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 people | amod |
| 42 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 produce | nsubj |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 land | cc |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 land | det |
| 45 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 land | amod |
| 46 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 people | conj |
| 47 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 produce | aux |
| 48 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 characters | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 required | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past · perfect · passive | the tower | year | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: from tower=Source | ||||
| 2 | melt down | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | require | past · passive | some metal | the royal city of Bavaria | for a monument; in honor of one of the celebrated characters | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition | |||
| 4 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | produce | could | a German people or a German land | the celebrated characters | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Result |
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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