Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 2
The town lies on the sea shore, which is always beautiful; but here it might be more beautiful than it is, for on every side the fields are flat, and it is a long way to the forest.
Who acts: town, sea shore, fields · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: sea shore, side, long way
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 (town, sea shore, fields), 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 town | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shore | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shore | compound |
| 7 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 beautiful | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shore | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 beautiful | cc |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 beautiful | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 beautiful | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 beautiful | cop |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lies | parataxis |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 is | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 is | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 beautiful | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 side | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 side | det |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fields | det |
| 30 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 flat | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 flat | cop |
| 32 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 side | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 way | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 way | cc |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 way | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 way | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 way | det |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 way | amod |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 forest | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 forest | det |
| 42 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 way | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the town | the sea shore | for every side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | the sea shore | always, beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | might | town | here | beautiful property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | present | town | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the fields | every side not said here | flat property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is a | present | town | a long way | to the forest | 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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