Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 9
Every thing was dripping with moisture, and the poor prince had not a dry thread about him.
Who acts: thing, poor prince · What happens: drip, have · To what, where: dry thread
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 (thing, poor prince), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 thing | det |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dripping | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dripping | aux |
| 4 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 moisture | case |
| 6 | moisture | moisture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dripping | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prince | amod |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dripping | conj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 thread | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thread | det |
| 15 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thread | amod |
| 16 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thread | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dripping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drip | past · progressive | every thing | with moisture | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with moisture=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the poor prince | a dry thread | about thing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient |
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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