Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 54
Without, not far from the house, is a hill covered with red-thorn and broom.
What happens: be, cover · To what, where: hill
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: 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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 house | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 house | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 house | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hill | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hill | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hill | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 thorn | case |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thorn | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 red | punct |
| 16 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covered | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 broom | cc |
| 18 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thorn | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a hill | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a hill not said here | with red thorn and broom | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thorn=Theme |
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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