Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 2
It was a geological book, containing an account of the boulders.
Who acts: It, geological book · What happens: be, contain, account · To what, where: geological book, account, boulders
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 (It, geological book), 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 | 5 book | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 book | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 4 | geological | geological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 book | amod |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 containing | punct |
| 7 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 book | acl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 account | det |
| 9 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 containing | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 boulders | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boulders | det |
| 12 | boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 account | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 book | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a geological book | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contain | gerund | a geological book not said here | a account of the boulders | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot account=Theme | ||||
| 3 | account | the boulders | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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