Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 12
They belong to the goose species, one can see that by their walk.
Who acts: swans, one · What happens: belong, see, walk · To what, where: goose species
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swans, one), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 belong | nsubj |
| 2 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 species | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 species | det |
| 5 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 species | compound |
| 6 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 belong | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 8 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 species | acl:relcl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 walk | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 walk | nmod:poss |
| 14 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | swans = swan | to the goose species | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | can | one | the goose species | by swans's walk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | walk | swans = swan | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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