Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 3
I saw it when it was part of the castle of Marck Stig on the promontory.
Who acts: I, Wind · What happens: see, be · To what, where: Wind, promontory, part
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 (I, Wind), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 part | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 part | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 part | cop |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Marck | case |
| 12 | Marck | Marck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 castle | nmod |
| 13 | Stig | Stig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Marck | flat |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 promontory | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 promontory | det |
| 16 | promontory | promontory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | Wind | the promontory | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Wind | part | of the castle of Marck | tree rules |
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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