Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 22
Do you see those four sacks hanging on the wall?
Who acts: you, four sacks · What happens: see, hang · To what, where: four sacks, 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, four sacks), 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 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 sacks | det |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sacks | nummod |
| 6 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | obj |
| 7 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sacks | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hanging | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | 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 four sacks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sack=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | that four sacks not said here | the wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=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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