Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 17
He could even see soldiers walking about with halberds.
Who acts: house, soldiers · What happens: see, walk · To what, where: soldiers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, soldiers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 soldiers | acl |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 walking | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 halberds | case |
| 9 | halberds | halberd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walking | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | house | soldiers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | soldiers not said here | with halberds; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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