Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 2
Under the roof were loopholes to shoot through, and to pour down boiling water or even molten lead on the enemy, should he approach.
Who acts: roof loopholes · What happens: be, shoot through, pour down, boil, approach · To what, where: roof loopholes, boiling water
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof loopholes), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 roof | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roof | det |
| 3 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loopholes | compound |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 loopholes | cop |
| 5 | loopholes | loophole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 approach | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 shoot | mark |
| 7 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 loopholes | acl |
| 8 | through | through | ADV | _ | 7 shoot | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pour | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pour | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pour | mark |
| 12 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shoot | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 pour | compound:prt |
| 14 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 water | amod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pour | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 lead | cc |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 lead | advmod |
| 18 | molten | molten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lead | amod |
| 19 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 enemy | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 enemy | det |
| 22 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lead | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 loopholes | punct |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 approach | aux |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 approach | nsubj |
| 26 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 approach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | roof loopholes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shoot through | to-infinitive | roof loopholes not said here | through property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pour down | to-infinitive | roof loopholes not said here | boiling water or molten lead on the enemy | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 4 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | approach | should | roof loopholes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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