Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 38
It was, however, not an apple, but an old ball, which had lain for years in the gutter, and was soaked through with water.
Who acts: apple, old ball · What happens: not be, lie, soak · To what, where: apple, gutter
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 (apple, old ball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:13325): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 apple | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 apple | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 apple | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 apple | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 apple | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 apple | advmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 apple | det |
| 8 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ball | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 ball | cc |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ball | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ball | amod |
| 13 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 apple | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lain | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lain | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lain | aux |
| 17 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 ball | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lain | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 gutter | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gutter | det |
| 22 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lain | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 soaked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 soaked | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 soaked | aux:pass |
| 26 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lain | conj |
| 27 | through | through | ADV | _ | 26 soaked | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 soaked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 apple | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | apple | a apple but a old ball | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | past · perfect | a old ball | the gutter | year | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gutter=Location | |||
| 3 | soak | past · passive | a old ball not said here | with water; through property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with water=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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