Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 143
"There are the Himalayas, the highest mountains in Asia," said the East Wind. "
Who acts: East Wind · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Himalayas · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (East Wind), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Himalayas | det |
| 5 | Himalayas | Himalaya | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 are | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mountains | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 8 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 mountains | amod |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Himalayas | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Asia | case |
| 11 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mountains | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Himalayas | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Wind | det |
| 16 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Wind | compound |
| 17 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the Himalayas | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the East Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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