Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 132
The poet wrote many songs about the true, the beautiful, and the good.
Who acts: poet · What happens: write · To what, where: many songs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet), 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 poet | det |
| 2 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 songs | amod |
| 5 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrote | obj |
| 6 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 true | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 true | det |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 songs | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beautiful | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 true | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 good | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 good | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 good | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 true | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | the poet | many songs | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=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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