Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 178
The roof, as far as one existed at all, was covered with moss and lichen.
Who acts: one · What happens: exist, cover · To what, where: roof, all
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | 2 roof | det |
| 2 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 existed | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 existed | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 existed | mark |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 existed | nsubj |
| 8 | existed | exist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 roof | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 existed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 roof | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 covered | aux:pass |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 moss | case |
| 15 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lichen | cc |
| 17 | lichen | lichen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 moss | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | participle | one | the roof not said here | all | far property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the roof | with moss and lichen | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with moss=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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