Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 57
The snail can now sit on the fence, and lick up moss and sunshine.
Who acts: snail · What happens: sit, lick up · To what, where: fence, moss
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 (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 | 2 snail | det |
| 2 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sit | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sit | advmod |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 fence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fence | det |
| 8 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lick | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lick | cc |
| 11 | lick | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sit | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 lick | compound:prt |
| 13 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lick | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sunshine | cc |
| 15 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moss | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | can | the snail | the fence | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fence=Location | |||
| 2 | lick up | present | the snail not said here | moss and sunshine | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent moss=Source |
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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