Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 14
His experiments were quite miracles on a small scale, and yet the explanations flowed as naturally as water from his lips.
Who acts: experiments, explanations, span · What happens: be, flow, experiment · To what, where: quite miracles, small scale, lips
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (experiments, explanations, span), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 experiments | nmod:poss |
| 2 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 miracles | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 miracles | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 miracles | amod |
| 5 | miracles | miracle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 scale | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 scale | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scale | amod |
| 9 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 miracles | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flowed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flowed | cc |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 flowed | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 explanations | det |
| 14 | explanations | explanation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flowed | nsubj |
| 15 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 miracles | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 naturally | advmod |
| 17 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 15 flowed | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flowed | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 lips | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lips | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flowed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 miracles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | span's experiments | quite miracles | a small scale | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flow | past | the explanations | span's lips | yet | as water; naturally property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | experiment | span | nom experiment «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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