Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 110
The Snow Man had a stove scraper in his body; that was what moved him so. "
Who acts: Snow Man, that · What happens: have, be · To what, where: stove scraper, body
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 (Snow Man, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Man | det |
| 2 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Man | compound |
| 3 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 scraper | det |
| 6 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scraper | compound |
| 7 | scraper | scraper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 body | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 body | nmod:poss |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scraper | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 moved | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 moved | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 moved | cop |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 moved | nsubj |
| 15 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 moved | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 moved | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Snow Man | a stove scraper | Man's body | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scraper=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | that | move property | tree rules |
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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