Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 14
The glove was lying there, pointing with its little finger at the tree. '
Who acts: glove · What happens: lie, point · To what, where: tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glove), 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 glove | det |
| 2 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lying | aux |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lying | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pointing | punct |
| 7 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lying | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 finger | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 finger | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 finger | amod |
| 11 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pointing | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pointing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lying | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | the glove | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | point | gerund | the glove not said here | the tree | with glove's little finger | vn wink-40.3.1 «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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