Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 38
The field, the brook, the haystack, with the blue sky above, formed a beautiful sleeping-room.
Who acts: field · What happens: form · To what, where: beautiful sleeping room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (field), 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 | 2 field | det |
| 2 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brook | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brook | det |
| 5 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 field | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 haystack | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 haystack | det |
| 8 | haystack | haystack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 field | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sky | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sky | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sky | det |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sky | amod |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 field | conj |
| 14 | above | above | ADV | _ | 13 sky | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 field | punct |
| 16 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 room | amod |
| 19 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 room | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 sleeping | punct |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 formed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | the field and the brook and the haystack and the blue sky | a beautiful sleeping room | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=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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