Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 3
It is a large venerable tree, though a little crippled by age.
Who acts: field · What happens: be, cripple · To what, where: large venerable tree, little
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (field), 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 | 6 tree | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tree | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 5 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crippled | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 crippled | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crippled | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | crippled | cripple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tree | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 age | case |
| 13 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crippled | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | field | a large venerable tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cripple | participle | field not said here | a little | by age | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: 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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