Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 99
The wild horses leap over the plains as we have seen them in our childhood.
Who acts: wild horses, we · What happens: leap, see · To what, where: plains, horses, childhood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (wild horses, we), 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 | 3 horses | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horses | amod |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leap | nsubj |
| 4 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 plains | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plains | det |
| 7 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leap | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 seen | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 leap | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 childhood | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 15 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | present | the wild horses | the plains | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over plain=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | we | horses = horse | our childhood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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