Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 144
It could be opened either at the front or at the back, and at every side and corner--a perfect work of art, and yet only an old alder stump in appearance.
Who acts: art · What happens: open, work · To what, where: cupboard, front
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (art), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 8 front | cc:preconj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 front | det |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 back | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 back | det |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 front | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 side | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 side | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 side | det |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 corner | cc |
| 19 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | conj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 work | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 work | det |
| 22 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 work | amod |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 art | case |
| 25 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 work | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stump | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 stump | cc |
| 28 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 33 stump | advmod |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 stump | advmod |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 stump | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stump | amod |
| 32 | alder | alder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stump | compound |
| 33 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 appearance | case |
| 35 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stump | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | could · passive | cupboard | the front or the back | at every side and corner; a old alder stump in appearance obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at front=Location | |||
| 2 | work | art | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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