Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 19
Beautiful black-eyed women live still in the blooming valleys, and the oldest songs speak of the Cid and the Alhambra.
Who acts: Beautiful eyed women, oldest songs · What happens: live, bloom, speak · To what, where: blooming valleys · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Beautiful eyed women, oldest songs), 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 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 women | amod |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyed | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 black | punct |
| 4 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 women | amod |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 live | nsubj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 live | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 valleys | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 valleys | det |
| 10 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 valleys | amod |
| 11 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 live | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 speak | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 speak | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 songs | det |
| 15 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 songs | amod |
| 16 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 speak | nsubj |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Cid | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Cid | det |
| 20 | Cid | Cid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 speak | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Alhambra | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Alhambra | det |
| 23 | Alhambra | Alhambra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Cid | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Beautiful eyed women | the blooming valleys | still | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location | |||
| 2 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | the oldest songs | of the Cid and the Alhambra | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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