Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 85
Between two trees a rope is hanging; there is a piece of board upon it; it is a swing.
Who acts: rope, piece · What happens: hang, be · To what, where: two trees, swing
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 (rope, piece), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 3 trees | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 trees | nummod |
| 3 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hanging | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rope | det |
| 5 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hanging | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hanging | aux |
| 7 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hanging | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 board | case |
| 14 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nmod |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 board | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 swing | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 swing | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 swing | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 swing | det |
| 21 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hanging | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hanging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present · progressive | a rope | two trees | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a piece of board upon rope | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | piece | a swing | 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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