Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 6
I have a good windpipe in my chest, and I have four wings that are placed outside my head, just beneath my hat.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, place · To what, where: good windpipe, chest, four wings, head
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 (I), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 windpipe | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 windpipe | amod |
| 5 | windpipe | windpipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 chest | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 windpipe | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 wings | nummod |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 placed | aux:pass |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 wings | acl:relcl |
| 18 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hat | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 hat | advmod |
| 23 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 25 hat | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 head | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a good windpipe | my chest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent windpipe=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | four wings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | place | present · passive | four wings | my head and my hat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme outside head=Destination |
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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