Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 24
The girl can only see a small piece of field which is surrounded by a high fence.
Who acts: girl, high fence · What happens: see, surround · To what, where: small piece, field
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 (girl, high fence), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 13 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 field | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 fence | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fence | det |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fence | amod |
| 17 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | the girl | a small piece of field | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | surround | present · passive | a high fence | field | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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