Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 107
It was the pole round which the boys had built him up. "
Who acts: ground · What happens: be, build up · To what, where: pole, boys
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ground), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pole | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pole | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pole | det |
| 4 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 built | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boys | det |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 built | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 built | aux |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pole | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 built | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 built | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pole | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ground | the pole | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build up | past · perfect · passive | the boys | round the pole | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Patient he=Extent |
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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