Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 30
My old wood-work and my old brick-work will rise again from the dust!
Who acts: old wood work, My · What happens: rise, work · To what, where: dust
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 (old wood work, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 work | nmod:poss |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 work | amod |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wood | punct |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rise | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 work | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 work | nmod:poss |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 work | amod |
| 9 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 work | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 brick | punct |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | conj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 rise | aux |
| 13 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 rise | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 dust | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dust | det |
| 17 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rise | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | future | My old wood work and my old brick work | the dust | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dust=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | work | My | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | work | my | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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