Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 9
Swans, made of wax, swam on the lake, and were reflected in it.
Who acts: Swans · What happens: make, swim, reflect · To what, where: Swans, 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 (Swans), 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 | Swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Swans | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wax | case |
| 5 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Swans | punct |
| 7 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swam | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reflected | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reflected | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 reflected | aux:pass |
| 14 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 swam | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reflected | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | Swans not said here | of wax | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | swim | past | Swans | the lake | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lake=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | reflect | past · passive | Swans not said here | lake | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V» |
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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