Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 60
They can also read the Intelligencer, which is a paper written by the people, with their hands guided.
Who acts: friends, Intelligencer, hands · What happens: read, be, write, guide · To what, where: Intelligencer, paper
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, Intelligencer, hands), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 read | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 read | advmod |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Intelligencer | det |
| 6 | Intelligencer | Intelligencer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 read | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 paper | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 paper | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 paper | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 paper | det |
| 11 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Intelligencer | appos |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 paper | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 written | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 guided | punct |
| 17 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 guided | mark |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 guided | nsubj |
| 20 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 read | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | can | friends = friend | the Intelligencer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intelligencer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Intelligencer | a paper | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | write | participle | a paper not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | guide | participle | friends's hands | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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