Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 24
Here he rested his burden against the wall.
Who acts: quantity · What happens: rest, burden · To what, where: burden, wall
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quantity), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rested | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rested | nsubj |
| 3 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 burden | nmod:poss |
| 5 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rested | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rested | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | quantity | quantity's burden | the wall; here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent burden=Theme against wall=Location | |||
| 2 | burden | quantity | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=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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