Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 1
The region round the little town of Kjoge is very bleak and cold.
Who acts: region · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (region), 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 region | det |
| 2 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bleak | nsubj |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 town | amod |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 region | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Kjoge | case |
| 8 | Kjoge | Kjoge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 town | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bleak | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 bleak | advmod |
| 11 | bleak | bleak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cold | cc |
| 13 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bleak | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bleak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the region round the little town of Kjoge | bleak property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the region round the little town of Kjoge not said here | tree rules |
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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