Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 49
With his finger he marks out a groove in the stone table.
Who acts: man · What happens: mark out · To what, where: groove, stone table
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 (man), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 finger | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 finger | nmod:poss |
| 3 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marks | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 marks | nsubj |
| 5 | marks | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 marks | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 groove | det |
| 8 | groove | groove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marks | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 table | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 table | compound |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 groove | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark out | present | man | a groove | the stone table | with man's finger | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent groove=Theme in table=Destination |
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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