Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 6
The baking-oven sticks out of the wall like a great knob.
Who acts: baking oven · What happens: stick out · To what, where: wall
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 (baking oven), 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 | 4 oven | det |
| 2 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 oven | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 baking | punct |
| 4 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sticks | nsubj |
| 5 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sticks | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 knob | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knob | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knob | amod |
| 13 | knob | knob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sticks | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sticks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick out | present | the baking oven | the wall | like a great knob | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wall=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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