Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 11
One must read in the different strata, in the pebble-stones, for each separate period.
Who acts: One · What happens: read · To what, where: different strata
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | aux |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 strata | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 strata | det |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 strata | amod |
| 7 | strata | strata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stones | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 stones | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stones | det |
| 11 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stones | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 pebble | punct |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 read | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 period | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 period | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 period | det |
| 17 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 period | amod |
| 18 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | must | One | the different strata | in the pebble stones; for each separate period | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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