Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 46
Voltaire, the satyr of human intellect, writes "La Pucelle."
Who acts: Voltaire · What happens: write · To what, where: La
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 (Voltaire), 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 | Voltaire | Voltaire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 satyr | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 satyr | det |
| 4 | satyr | satyr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Voltaire | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 intellect | case |
| 6 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 intellect | amod |
| 7 | intellect | intellect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 satyr | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Voltaire | punct |
| 9 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 La | punct |
| 11 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 writes | obj |
| 12 | Pucelle | Pucelle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 La | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 La | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 La | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | Voltaire | La | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent la=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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