Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 18
The air steamboat flies over the country whence Columbus went forth, where Cortez was born, and where Calderon sang dramas in sounding verse.
Who acts: air steamboat, Columbus, Calderon · What happens: fly, go, bear, sing, sound · To what, where: country, Cortez, dramas, verse
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air steamboat, Columbus, Calderon), 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 | 3 steamboat | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 steamboat | compound |
| 3 | steamboat | steamboat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | nsubj |
| 4 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | obl |
| 8 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 went | advmod |
| 9 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 country | acl:relcl |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 born | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 born | advmod |
| 14 | Cortez | Cortez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 went | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sang | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sang | cc |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 sang | advmod |
| 20 | Calderon | Calderon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sang | nsubj |
| 21 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flies | conj |
| 22 | dramas | drama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sang | obj |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 sounding | mark |
| 24 | sounding | sound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sang | advcl |
| 25 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sounding | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | the air steamboat | the country | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over country=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Columbus | forth, whence property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | Cortez | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | Calderon | dramas | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drama=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sound | gerund | Calderon not said here | verse | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location verse=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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