Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 150
Do you see that wall of rocks, and the cavern beneath it, over which the grape vines hang like a green curtain?
Who acts: you, grape vines · What happens: see, hang · To what, where: wall
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 (you, grape vines), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 wall | det |
| 5 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rocks | case |
| 7 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wall | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cavern | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cavern | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cavern | det |
| 11 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cavern | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hang | punct |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hang | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 vines | det |
| 18 | grape | grape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vines | compound |
| 19 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hang | nsubj |
| 20 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 curtain | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 curtain | det |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 curtain | amod |
| 24 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hang | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | that wall of rocks | the cavern beneath cavern obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wall=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hang | present | the grape vines | like a green curtain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over which=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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