Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 118
It is a kingdom of Babel, a wonder of the world!
Who acts: melody · What happens: be, wonder · To what, where: kingdom, world
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 (melody), 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 | 4 kingdom | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kingdom | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Babel | case |
| 6 | Babel | Babel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kingdom | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wonder | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wonder | det |
| 9 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kingdom | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wonder | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 kingdom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | melody | a kingdom | of Babel | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wonder | the world | nom wonder «feeling 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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