Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 47
The gardener's boy sang in the garden, across the palings:
Who acts: boy · What happens: sing · To what, where: garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 gardener | det |
| 2 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 gardener | case |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sang | nsubj |
| 5 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sang | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 palings | punct |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 palings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palings | det |
| 12 | palings | paling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sang | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the gardener's boy | the garden | across the palings | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |
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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