Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 63
The churches there are almost entirely built of hewn blocks of stone, each like a piece of rock.
What happens: build · To what, where: churches
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: 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 churches | det |
| 2 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 churches | expl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 entirely | advmod |
| 6 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 7 built | advmod |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 blocks | case |
| 9 | hewn | hewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blocks | amod |
| 10 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 built | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blocks | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 each | punct |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 blocks | appos |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 piece | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 piece | det |
| 17 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 each | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 rock | case |
| 19 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piece | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | the churches | of hewn blocks of stone; entirely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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