Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 93
A swinging plank, a light sparkling foam picture,--that is my story."
Who acts: light, that · What happens: swing, sparkle, be · To what, where: foam picture, story
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 (light, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plank | det |
| 2 | swinging | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 plank | amod |
| 3 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 light | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plank | conj |
| 7 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 light | acl |
| 8 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 picture | compound |
| 9 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sparkling | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 story | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 story | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 story | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 story | cop |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 story | nmod:poss |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plank | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 story | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 2 | sparkle | gerund | a light not said here | foam picture | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | my story | 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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