Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 23
The African, with blunt features, thick lips, and woolly hair, sits on the marble steps of the palace in the capital of Portugal, and begs.
Who acts: woolly hair, African blunt features · What happens: sit, beg, step · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woolly hair, African blunt features), 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 African | det |
| 2 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 features | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 features | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 features | case |
| 5 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 features | amod |
| 6 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 begs | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lips | punct |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lips | amod |
| 9 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 features | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sits | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sits | cc |
| 12 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hair | amod |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sits | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hair | punct |
| 15 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 begs | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 steps | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 steps | det |
| 18 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 steps | compound |
| 19 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sits | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 steps | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 capital | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 capital | det |
| 25 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 palace | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Portugal | case |
| 27 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 capital | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 begs | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 begs | cc |
| 30 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 begs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | woolly hair | on the marble steps of the palace in the capital of Portugal | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | African blunt features and thick lips | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | step | the palace in the capital of Portugal | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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