Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 153
The bird flying past the entrance to the cavern feels as if one wing were in the region of summer, and the other in the depths of winter."
Who acts: bird, one wing · What happens: fly, feel, be · To what, where: region
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 (bird, one wing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 bird | acl |
| 4 | past | past | ADP | _ | 6 entrance | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 entrance | det |
| 6 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flying | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cavern | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cavern | det |
| 9 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flying | obl |
| 10 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 region | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 region | mark |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 wing | nummod |
| 14 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 region | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 region | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 region | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 region | det |
| 18 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feels | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 summer | case |
| 20 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 region | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 other | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 other | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feels | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 depths | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 depths | det |
| 27 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 other | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 winter | case |
| 29 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 depths | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 feels | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | the bird not said here | past the entrance; to the cavern result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cavern=Result | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | the bird | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | one wing | the region | summer | tree rules |
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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