Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 110
The wall and the floor have been smeared with bacon-rind; nothing can be nicer."
Who acts: nothing · What happens: smear, be · To what, where: wall
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 wall | det |
| 2 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smeared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 floor | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wall | conj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 smeared | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 smeared | aux:pass |
| 8 | smeared | smear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 rind | case |
| 10 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rind | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 bacon | punct |
| 12 | rind | rind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smeared | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 nicer | punct |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 nicer | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 nicer | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nicer | cop |
| 17 | nicer | nice | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 smeared | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 smeared | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 smeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smear | present · perfect · passive | the wall and the floor | with bacon rind | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with rind=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | can | nothing | nice property | 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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