Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 21
Perhaps it has hidden itself in the straw that balances on the margin of the well.
Who acts: straw · What happens: hide, balance · To what, where: thought, straw, margin
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 (straw), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 hidden | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hidden | aux |
| 4 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 hidden | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 straw | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 straw | det |
| 8 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hidden | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 balances | nsubj |
| 10 | balances | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 straw | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 margin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 margin | det |
| 13 | margin | margin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 balances | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 well | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 well | det |
| 16 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 margin | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present · perfect · passive | thought | the straw | perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | balance | present | the straw | the margin of the well | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on margin=Location |
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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