Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 27
Behind the iron grating a man appears, pale as death, with long unkempt beard.
Who acts: iron · What happens: grate, appear · To what, where: man
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 (iron), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 appears | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 iron | det |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appears | nsubj |
| 4 | grating | grate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 iron | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grating | obj |
| 7 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pale | punct |
| 9 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 appears | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 death | case |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pale | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beard | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 beard | case |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beard | amod |
| 15 | unkempt | unkempt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beard | amod |
| 16 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pale | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grate | gerund | the iron not said here | a man | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | the iron | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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