Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 15
It still stands towering aloft on the heavy wagon which has brought it this morning a distance of several miles to Paris.
Who acts: tree · What happens: stand, tower, bring · To what, where: heavy wagon
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 (tree), 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 stands | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stands | advmod |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towering | tower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stands | xcomp |
| 5 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 towering | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wagon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wagon | det |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wagon | amod |
| 9 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 towering | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wagon | acl:relcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 morning | det |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 distance | det |
| 17 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 miles | case |
| 19 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 miles | amod |
| 20 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 distance | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Paris | case |
| 22 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 miles | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | tree | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tower | gerund | tree not said here | the heavy wagon | aloft property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wagon=Location | |||
| 3 | bring | present · perfect · passive | the heavy wagon | morning | tree rules |
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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