Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 101
Like a great table on Christmas Eve, the Champ de Mars carried a wonder-castle of industry and art, and around this knickknacks from all countries had been ranged, knickknacks on a grand scale, for every nation found some remembrance of home.
Who acts: Champ Mars, nation · What happens: carry, range, find, remember · To what, where: wonder castle, knickknacks, remembrance, home
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Champ Mars, nation), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 table | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 table | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 table | amod |
| 4 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Christmas | case |
| 6 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 table | nmod |
| 7 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Christmas | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 table | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mars | det |
| 10 | Champ | Champ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mars | compound |
| 11 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Champ | flat |
| 12 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 15 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 castle | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 wonder | punct |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 industry | case |
| 19 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 castle | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 art | cc |
| 21 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 industry | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ranged | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ranged | cc |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 26 knickknacks | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 knickknacks | det |
| 26 | knickknacks | knickknack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ranged | obl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 countries | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 countries | det |
| 29 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 knickknacks | nmod |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 ranged | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 ranged | aux:pass |
| 32 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 carried | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 knickknacks | punct |
| 34 | knickknacks | knickknack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ranged | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 scale | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 scale | det |
| 37 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 scale | amod |
| 38 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ranged | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 found | punct |
| 40 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 found | mark |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 nation | det |
| 42 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 found | nsubj |
| 43 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 ranged | parataxis |
| 44 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 remembrance | det |
| 45 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 found | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 home | case |
| 47 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 remembrance | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the Champ Mars | a wonder castle of industry and art | like a great table on Christmas | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | |||
| 2 | range | past · perfect · passive | the Champ Mars not said here | this knickknacks from all countries | on a grand scale | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: around knickknack=Location | |||
| 3 | find | past | every nation | some remembrance of home | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remembrance=Topic | ||||
| 4 | remember | home | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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