Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 80
An inviting place for a frolic, if it had not been for the number of poisonous adders of which the travellers spoke; they also mentioned that the place had formerly been infested with wolves, and that the district was still called Wolfsborg for this reason.
Who acts: heather, travellers · What happens: have, not be, speak, mention, infest, call · To what, where: place, district · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heather, travellers), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 place | det |
| 2 | inviting | inviting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 place | amod |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 frolic | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 frolic | det |
| 6 | frolic | frolic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 place | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 place | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 number | advmod |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 number | cop |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 number | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 number | det |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 adders | case |
| 17 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 adders | amod |
| 18 | adders | adder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 number | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 spoke | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 travellers | det |
| 22 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spoke | nsubj |
| 23 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 adders | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 mentioned | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 mentioned | nsubj |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 27 mentioned | advmod |
| 27 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 spoke | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 infested | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 place | det |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 infested | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 infested | aux |
| 32 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 34 infested | advmod |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 infested | aux:pass |
| 34 | infested | infest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 mentioned | ccomp |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 wolves | case |
| 36 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 infested | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 called | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 called | cc |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 called | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 district | det |
| 41 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 called | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 called | aux:pass |
| 43 | still | still | ADV | _ | 44 called | advmod |
| 44 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 spoke | conj |
| 45 | Wolfsborg | Wolfsborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 called | xcomp |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 reason | case |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 reason | det |
| 48 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 called | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | heather | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | participle | for the number; of poisonous adders | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the travellers | of poisonous adders | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mention speech: other | past | travellers = traveller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | infest | past · perfect · passive | the place | with wolves; formerly property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with wolf=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call | past · passive | the district | still | for this reason | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for reason=Beneficiary |
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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