Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 9
The parapet projects so far forward that no one can see out of our windows what is going on in that direction.
Who acts: parapet, one · What happens: project, see out, go on · To what, where: windows, direction · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (parapet, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 parapet | det |
| 2 | parapet | parapet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 projects | nsubj |
| 3 | projects | project | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 forward | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 forward | advmod |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 projects | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 projects | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 windows | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 windows | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 windows | nmod:poss |
| 15 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | obl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 going | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 see | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 going | compound:prt |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 direction | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 direction | det |
| 22 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 going | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 projects | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | project | present | the parapet | forward property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see out | can | no one | our windows | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go on | present · progressive | that direction | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=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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