Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 77
Are you standing on a ladder?"
Who acts: you · What happens: stand · To what, where: ladder
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 (you), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 standing | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ladder | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ladder | det |
| 6 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 standing | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 standing | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present · progressive | you | a ladder | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ladder=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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