Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 4
At the top she is narrow, and has a stick passed across through her waist, and this stick forms the arms of the maiden.
Who acts: maiden, stick · What happens: be, have, pass, form · To what, where: top, stick, waist, arms
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, stick), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 top | det |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 narrow | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 narrow | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 narrow | cop |
| 6 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 has | cc |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 narrow | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stick | det |
| 11 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stick | acl |
| 13 | across | across | ADV | _ | 12 passed | advmod |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 waist | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 waist | nmod:poss |
| 16 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forms | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 forms | cc |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 stick | det |
| 20 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forms | nsubj |
| 21 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 has | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 arms | det |
| 23 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 forms | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 maiden | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 maiden | det |
| 26 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arms | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 narrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | maiden | the top | narrow property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | a stick | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient | |||||
| 3 | pass | participle | a stick not said here | maiden's waist | across property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through waist=Location | |||
| 4 | form | present | this stick | the arms of the maiden | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=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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