Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 33
It was a good fat sheep, with a fine fleece on its back.
Who acts: sheep · What happens: be · To what, where: good fat sheep
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sheep | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sheep | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sheep | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sheep | amod |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sheep | compound |
| 6 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fleece | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fleece | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fleece | det |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fleece | amod |
| 11 | fleece | fleece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sheep | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fleece | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sheep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sheep | a good fat sheep and a fine fleece on sheep's back | tree rules |
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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