Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 9
The electro-magnetic wire under the ocean has already telegraphed the number of the aerial caravan.
What happens: telegraph · To what, where: magnetic wire
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: 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 | 5 wire | det |
| 2 | electro | electro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 magnetic | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 electro | punct |
| 4 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wire | amod |
| 5 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 telegraphed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 ocean | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ocean | det |
| 8 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wire | nmod |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 telegraphed | aux |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 telegraphed | advmod |
| 11 | telegraphed | telegraph | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 telegraphed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 caravan | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 caravan | det |
| 16 | aerial | aerial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 caravan | amod |
| 17 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 number | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 telegraphed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | telegraph speech: other | present · perfect · passive | the magnetic wire under the ocean | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient number=Topic |
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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