Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 45
The body of the mill did not rise out of the dust as they had believed it would do.
Who acts: body · What happens: not rise, believe, do · To what, where: dust, beams · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (body), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 body | det |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rise | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mill | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mill | det |
| 5 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 body | nmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rise | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 rise | advmod |
| 8 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 dust | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 dust | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dust | det |
| 12 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rise | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 believed | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 believed | aux |
| 16 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rise | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 believed | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rise | past · do-support | the body of the mill | the dust | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out dust=Location | ||||
| 2 | believe | past · perfect · passive | beams = beam | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | would | body | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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