Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 79
She bends over the balustrades, and looks up the road.
Who acts: ivy · What happens: bend, look up · To what, where: balustrades, road
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 (ivy), 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 | 2 bends | nsubj |
| 2 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 balustrades | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 balustrades | det |
| 5 | balustrades | balustrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bends | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looks | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looks | cc |
| 8 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bends | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 looks | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looks | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present | ivy | the balustrades | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over balustrade=Location | ||||
| 2 | look up | present | ivy not said here | the road | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Attribute |
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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