Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 37
And then he glanced at a curious round thing like an old apple, which lay near a long, leafless cabbage-stalk.
Who acts: set, old apple · What happens: glance, lie · To what, where: long leafless cabbage stalk
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (set, old apple), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 glanced | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 glanced | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 glanced | nsubj |
| 4 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 thing | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 7 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 8 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glanced | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 apple | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 apple | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 apple | amod |
| 13 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thing | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 apple | acl:relcl |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 stalk | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stalk | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stalk | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 21 | leafless | leafless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stalk | amod |
| 22 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stalk | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 cabbage | punct |
| 24 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance | past | set | then | at a curious round thing like a old apple | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | lie | past | a old apple | a long leafless cabbage stalk | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near stalk=Location |
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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