Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 164
The balloon descended over one of the greatest cities, and the aeronaut took up his station at the highest point, on the church steeple.
Who acts: balloon, aeronaut · What happens: descend, take up · To what, where: station, highest point
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 (balloon, aeronaut), 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 balloon | det |
| 2 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 descended | nsubj |
| 3 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 descended | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cities | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cities | det |
| 8 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 cities | amod |
| 9 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 aeronaut | det |
| 13 | aeronaut | aeronaut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 descended | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 station | nmod:poss |
| 17 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 point | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 point | det |
| 20 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 point | amod |
| 21 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 steeple | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 steeple | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 steeple | det |
| 25 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 steeple | compound |
| 26 | steeple | steeple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | past | the balloon | over one of the greatest cities | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over one=Location | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | the aeronaut | aeronaut's station | the highest point | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent station=Theme at point=Asset |
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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