Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 72
Not far from here is another moor, in which there are some pretty wild geese, all unmarried.
Who acts: pretty wild geese · What happens: be · To what, where: moor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty wild geese), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 moor | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 here | case |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 far | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 moor | cop |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 moor | det |
| 7 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 are | obl |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 moor | parataxis |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 geese | det |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 geese | amod |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 geese | amod |
| 16 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 are | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 unmarried | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 unmarried | advmod |
| 19 | unmarried | unmarried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 geese | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | another moor | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does | present | some pretty wild geese | another moor; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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