Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 28
To Egypt, where we shall see three-cornered houses built of stone, with pointed tops that reach nearly to the clouds.
Who acts: we, pointed tops · What happens: see, corner, build, reach · To what, where: cornered houses, Egypt
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, pointed tops), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 Egypt | case |
| 2 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Egypt | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 see | advmod |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 cornered | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 three | punct |
| 10 | cornered | corner | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 houses | amod |
| 11 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obj |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 houses | acl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tops | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tops | case |
| 17 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tops | amod |
| 18 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 reach | nsubj |
| 20 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tops | acl:relcl |
| 21 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 24 clouds | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 clouds | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 clouds | det |
| 24 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reach | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | shall | we | cornered houses | Egypt | with pointed tops | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | corner | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | build | participle | cornered houses not said here | of stone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | reach | present | pointed tops | to the clouds | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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