Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 10
He was obliged at last to climb over great blocks of stone, with water spurting from the thick moss.
Who acts: water · What happens: oblige, climb, spurt · To what, where: prince, last, great blocks, thick moss
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 obliged | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 climb | mark |
| 7 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obliged | advcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 blocks | advmod |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blocks | amod |
| 10 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 climb | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blocks | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 water | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climb | obl |
| 16 | spurting | spurt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 water | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 moss | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moss | det |
| 19 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 moss | amod |
| 20 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spurting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | prince | last | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | climb | to-infinitive | great blocks of stone | with water | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location block=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spurt | gerund | water not said here | the thick moss | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from moss=Source |
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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