Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 54
Nuremberg is a wonderful old city, and looks as if it had been cut out of an old picture-book.
Who acts: Nuremberg, wonderful old city · What happens: be, look, cut out · To what, where: wonderful old city, knapsack, old picture book
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nuremberg, wonderful old city), 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 | Nuremberg | Nuremberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 city | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 city | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 city | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 city | amod |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looks | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looks | cc |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 city | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 cut | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 cut | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cut | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 cut | aux:pass |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 looks | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 book | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 book | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 book | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 book | amod |
| 20 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 book | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 picture | punct |
| 22 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cut | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 city | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nuremberg | a wonderful old city | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | a wonderful old city not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | cut out | past · perfect · passive | knapsack | a old picture book | 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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