Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 27
The eighth letter from the end of the alphabet is S, and therefore the snail received the second prize.
Who acts: eighth letter, snail · What happens: be, receive · To what, where: S, second prize
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eighth letter, snail), 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 | 3 letter | det |
| 2 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 letter | amod |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 S | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 letter | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 alphabet | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 alphabet | det |
| 9 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 S | cop |
| 11 | S | S | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 received | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 received | cc |
| 14 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 received | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 snail | det |
| 16 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 received | nsubj |
| 17 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 S | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prize | det |
| 19 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 prize | amod |
| 20 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 received | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 S | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the eighth letter from the end of the alphabet | S | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the snail | the second prize | therefore property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=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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