Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 116
It was built on the ruins of some ancient baths.
What happens: build, ruin · To what, where: tavern, ruins, ancient baths
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ruins | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ruins | det |
| 6 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 baths | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 baths | det |
| 9 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 baths | amod |
| 10 | baths | bath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ruins | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | tavern | the ruins of some ancient baths | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on ruin=Source | ||||
| 2 | ruin | some ancient baths | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=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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