Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 4
It almost looks like a great plateful of spiders jumping about in a crowd.
Who acts: glass, spiders · What happens: look, jump
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 (glass, spiders), 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 | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 looks | advmod |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 plateful | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plateful | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plateful | amod |
| 7 | plateful | plateful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 spiders | case |
| 9 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 plateful | nmod |
| 10 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 spiders | acl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 crowd | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 crowd | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 crowd | det |
| 14 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumping | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | glass | like a great plateful of spiders; almost property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | jump | gerund | spiders not said here | about a crowd | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about crowd=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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