Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 114
He has scratched on it with his beak the whole of his history during the hundred years he has lived.
Who acts: phoenix · What happens: scratch, live · To what, where: world, hundred years
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 (phoenix), 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 scratched | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scratched | aux |
| 3 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scratched | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 beak | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scratched | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 whole | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beak | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 history | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 history | nmod:poss |
| 13 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whole | obl |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 years | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scratched | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lived | aux |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 years | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scratched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | present · perfect | phoenix | world | year | with phoenix's beak | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with beak=Instrument | ||
| 2 | live | present · perfect | phoenix | the hundred years not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme year=Location |
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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