Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 76
The sound continued from every direction, for the sportsmen surrounded the moor, and some were even seated on branches of trees, overlooking the rushes.
Who acts: sportsmen, sound · What happens: continue, surround, seat, overlook · To what, where: sound, direction, moor, some, branches, rushes
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 (sportsmen, sound), 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 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sound | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 direction | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 direction | det |
| 6 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sportsmen | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sportsmen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sportsmen | det |
| 10 | sportsmen | sportsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 continued | obl |
| 11 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sportsmen | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moor | det |
| 13 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 surrounded | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seated | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seated | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seated | aux:pass |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 seated | advmod |
| 19 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sound | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 branches | case |
| 21 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seated | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 trees | case |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 branches | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 overlooking | punct |
| 25 | overlooking | overlook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 seated | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rushes | det |
| 27 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 overlooking | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | participle | the sound not said here | every direction | for the sportsmen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from direction=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | surround | participle | the sportsmen not said here | the moor | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moor=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | seat | past · passive | the sound not said here | some | branches of trees | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | |||
| 4 | overlook | gerund | the sound not said here | the rushes | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rush=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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