Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 7
Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night.
Who acts: Oie, children · What happens: carry, spread, dream · To what, where: umbrella, arm, beautiful stories
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 (Oie, children), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 arm | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 arm | det |
| 3 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carries | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carries | nsubj |
| 5 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 umbrella | det |
| 7 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carries | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 carries | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pictures | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pictures | case |
| 14 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 inside | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 inside | det |
| 17 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pictures | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spreads | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spreads | nsubj |
| 20 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 carries | conj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 children | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 children | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 children | amod |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spreads | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dream | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dream | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 dream | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 dream | nsubj |
| 29 | dream | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 spreads | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 stories | det |
| 31 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 32 beautiful | advmod |
| 32 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stories | amod |
| 33 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 dream | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 night | det |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 night | amod |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dream | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Oie | a umbrella | each arm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Theme | |||
| 2 | spread | present | Oie | over the good children | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over child=Location | ||||
| 3 | dream | present | children = child | the beautiful stories | then; night | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
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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