Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 58
Soldiers like the knave of clubs, and citizens with waving banners.
What happens: wave
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: 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 | Soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 knave | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knave | det |
| 4 | knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soldiers | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 clubs | case |
| 6 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 knave | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 citizens | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 citizens | cc |
| 9 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Soldiers | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 banners | case |
| 11 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 banners | amod |
| 12 | banners | banner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 citizens | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soldiers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | gerund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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