Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 74
Fata Morgana, the beautiful aerial phenomenon of the wilderness, appeared with hanging gardens and waving forests, and the wonderful cloud called "Lokeman driving his sheep" also was seen.
Who acts: Fata, Lokeman · What happens: appear, hang, wave, call, drive, see · To what, where: gardens, forests, wonderful cloud, sheep · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fata, Lokeman), 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 | Fata | Fata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | Morgana | Morgana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Fata | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 phenomenon | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 phenomenon | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 phenomenon | amod |
| 6 | aerial | aerial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 phenomenon | amod |
| 7 | phenomenon | phenomenon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fata | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wilderness | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wilderness | det |
| 10 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 phenomenon | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fata | punct |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 hanging | mark |
| 14 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 appeared | advcl |
| 15 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hanging | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 waving | cc |
| 17 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 hanging | conj |
| 18 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 waving | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 seen | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 seen | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cloud | det |
| 22 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cloud | amod |
| 23 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 cloud | acl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Lokeman | punct |
| 26 | Lokeman | Lokeman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 27 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 Lokeman | acl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 driving | obj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Lokeman | punct |
| 31 | also | also | ADV | _ | 33 seen | advmod |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 seen | aux:pass |
| 33 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 appeared | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Fata | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | Fata not said here | gardens | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wave | gerund | Fata not said here | forests | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call speech: assert | participle | the wonderful cloud not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drive in a quote | gerund | Lokeman not said here | Fata's sheep | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | past · passive | the wonderful cloud | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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