Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 22
It looked really like a great town reflected there, in which all the people were running about without clothes.
Who acts: It, great town, people · What happens: look, reflect, run about
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, great town, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 8 reflected | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reflected | nsubj |
| 8 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | advcl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 reflected | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 running | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 running | obl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 people | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 running | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 running | aux |
| 17 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 reflected | advcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 running | advmod |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 clothes | case |
| 20 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 running | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | It | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | reflect | past | a great town | there | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | run about | past · progressive | all people | without clothes; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Trajectory |
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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