Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 195
Her courage was like that of a man; and in man's clothes she served as a sailor on board ship.
Who acts: courage, proudest · What happens: be, serve · To what, where: man, clothes
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 (courage, proudest), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 courage | nmod:poss |
| 2 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 man | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 served | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 served | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 clothes | case |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 man | case |
| 14 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 served | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 served | nsubj |
| 16 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 sailor | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sailor | det |
| 19 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 served | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 ship | case |
| 21 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ship | compound |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 served | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | proudest's courage | like a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | serve | past | proudest = proud | a man not said here | man's clothes | as a sailor; on board ship | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Value in clothes=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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