Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 48
Farther on were the walruses with pig's heads, and teeth a yard long, rolling about like great worms.
What happens: be, roll about · To what, where: walruses
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: 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 | Farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 long | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 walruses | case |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walruses | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 walruses | det |
| 5 | walruses | walrus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Farther | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heads | case |
| 7 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heads | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 pig | case |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walruses | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 teeth | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 teeth | cc |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heads | appos |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 yard | det |
| 14 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 teeth | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rolling | punct |
| 17 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 long | advcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 rolling | advmod |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 worms | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 worms | amod |
| 21 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rolling | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the walruses | with pig's heads | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roll about | gerund | like great worms; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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