Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 129
She is pouring water out of a tea-pot on a piece of stuff which she holds in her hand; it is her bodice. '
Who acts: grandmother, stuff, water · What happens: pour, hold, be · To what, where: water, tea pot, hand, bodice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, stuff, water), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pouring | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pouring | aux |
| 3 | pouring | pour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pouring | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 pot | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pot | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pot | det |
| 8 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pot | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tea | punct |
| 10 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pouring | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 piece | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pouring | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stuff | case |
| 15 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piece | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 holds | nsubj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 holds | nsubj |
| 18 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 stuff | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 holds | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 bodice | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bodice | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bodice | cop |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bodice | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bodice | bodice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pouring | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 bodice | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 bodice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | present · progressive | grandmother | water | a tea pot | on a piece of stuff | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme out pot=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | hold | present | stuff | grandmother's hand | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | water | grandmother's bodice | 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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