Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 9
The prisoner scratched pictures and verses with white chalk on the black walls, but I did not read the verses.
Who acts: prisoner, I · What happens: scratch, not read · To what, where: pictures, black walls, verses
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prisoner | det |
| 2 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scratched | nsubj |
| 3 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scratched | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 verses | cc |
| 6 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pictures | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 chalk | case |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chalk | amod |
| 9 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scratched | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 walls | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walls | det |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 walls | amod |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scratched | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 read | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 read | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 read | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 read | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 read | advmod |
| 19 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 scratched | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 verses | det |
| 21 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 read | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scratched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | past | the prisoner | pictures and verses | the black walls | with white chalk | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme on wall=Destination | ||
| 2 | not read | past · do-support | I | the verses | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Topic |
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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