Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 43
It was a ridiculous list--horse-radish, soup, and stuffed cabbage."
Who acts: bill · What happens: be, stuff · To what, where: ridiculous list
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bill), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 list | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 list | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 list | det |
| 4 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 list | amod |
| 5 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 radish | punct |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 radish | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 horse | punct |
| 9 | radish | radish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 list | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 soup | punct |
| 11 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 radish | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cabbage | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cabbage | cc |
| 14 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cabbage | amod |
| 15 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 list | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cabbage | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cabbage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bill | a ridiculous list | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stuff | participle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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