Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 109
Why, there's the shovel that is used for cleaning out the stove, fastened to the pole."
Who acts: shovel · What happens: be, use, clean out, fasten · To what, where: shovel, stove
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 (shovel), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 's | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 's | expl |
| 4 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shovel | det |
| 6 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 's | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 used | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 used | aux:pass |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 shovel | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 cleaning | mark |
| 11 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 used | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 cleaning | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stove | det |
| 14 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cleaning | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fastened | punct |
| 16 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 used | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 pole | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pole | det |
| 19 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fastened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 's | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | the shovel | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | the shovel | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | clean out | gerund | the stove | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stove=Patient | |||||
| 4 | fasten | participle | to the pole | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to pole=Co-Patient |
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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