Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 8
In front of the castle a number of little trees surrounded a piece of looking-glass, which was intended to represent a transparent lake.
Who acts: little trees, piece · What happens: surround, look, intend, represent · To what, where: piece, glass, transparent lake
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little trees, piece), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 castle | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trees | amod |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 number | nmod |
| 11 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 trees | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 surrounded | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 looking | mark |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 piece | acl |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 glass | punct |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 intended | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 intended | aux:pass |
| 21 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 glass | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 represent | mark |
| 23 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 intended | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lake | det |
| 25 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lake | amod |
| 26 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 represent | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 front | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle | little trees not said here | a piece | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piece=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | a piece not said here | glass | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme glass=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | intend | past · passive | glass | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | represent not said to happen | to-infinitive | a transparent lake | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lake=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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