Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 1
A windmill stood upon the hill, proud to look at, and it was proud too.
Who acts: windmill · What happens: stand, look, be · To what, where: hill
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (windmill), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 windmill | det |
| 2 | windmill | windmill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 hill | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hill | det |
| 6 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 proud | punct |
| 8 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hill | amod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 proud | xcomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 proud | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 proud | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 proud | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 proud | cop |
| 16 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | conj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 proud | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a windmill | the hill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon hill=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | a windmill not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | windmill | proud property | 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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