Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 79
Where would Joanna's place be on that wall some day? and how would he look,--her noble lord and husband?
Who acts: place, Joanna · What happens: be, look · To what, where: wall, noble lord
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 (place, Joanna), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 wall | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 wall | aux |
| 3 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Joanna | case |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wall | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wall | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 wall | det |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wall | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 look | cc |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 look | advmod |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 look | aux |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | nsubj |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 day | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lord | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 lord | punct |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lord | nmod:poss |
| 21 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lord | amod |
| 22 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 husband | cc |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lord | conj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 wall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | Joanna's place | that wall | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | would | Joanna | squirrel's noble lord and husband | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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