Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 50
They look like other plants; but they have hearts that beat.
Who acts: trees, hearts · What happens: look, have, beat · To what, where: hearts
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, hearts), 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 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 plants | case |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plants | amod |
| 5 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | conj |
| 10 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 beat | nsubj |
| 12 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hearts | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | trees = tree | like other plants | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | trees = tree | hearts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | beat | present | hearts | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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