Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 2
We stand on the ramparts, and look out over the sea.
Who acts: We · What happens: stand, look out · To what, where: ramparts, sea
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 stand | nsubj |
| 2 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ramparts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ramparts | det |
| 5 | ramparts | rampart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stand | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 look | cc |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stand | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 look | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | We | the ramparts | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rampart=Location | ||||
| 2 | look out | infinitive | We not said here | the sea | out property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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