Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 2
The wide sea is the highroad from nation to nation; journey in thought; then, to sunny Spain.
Who acts: wide sea · What happens: be · To what, where: highroad, sunny Spain, nation
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wide sea), 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 sea | det |
| 2 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sea | amod |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 highroad | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 highroad | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 highroad | det |
| 6 | highroad | highroad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 nation | case |
| 8 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 highroad | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 nation | case |
| 10 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nation | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 journey | punct |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 highroad | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 thought | case |
| 14 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journey | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Spain | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 Spain | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 then | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Spain | case |
| 19 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Spain | amod |
| 20 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 highroad | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 highroad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wide sea | the highroad and journey in thought | sunny Spain | nation to nation | tree rules |
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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