Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 91
In front of the Military School extends in time of peace the arena of war--a field without a blade of grass, a piece of sandy steppe, as if cut out of the Desert of Africa, where Fata Morgana displays her wondrous airy castles and hanging gardens.
Who acts: Fata · What happens: extend, cut out, display, hang · To what, where: front, Desert, wondrous airy castles
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 (Fata), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extends | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 School | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 School | det |
| 5 | Military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 School | amod |
| 6 | School | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 7 | extends | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extends | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 peace | case |
| 11 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 arena | det |
| 13 | arena | arena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 war | case |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arena | nmod |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 field | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 field | det |
| 18 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arena | conj |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 blade | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 blade | det |
| 21 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 field | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 grass | case |
| 23 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blade | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 piece | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 piece | det |
| 26 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arena | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 steppe | case |
| 28 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 steppe | amod |
| 29 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 piece | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 cut | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 cut | mark |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 cut | mark |
| 33 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 extends | parataxis |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 Desert | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Desert | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Desert | det |
| 37 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 cut | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Africa | case |
| 39 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Desert | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 displays | punct |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 displays | advmod |
| 42 | Fata | Fata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 displays | nsubj |
| 43 | Morgana | Morgana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Fata | flat |
| 44 | displays | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 Desert | acl:relcl |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 castles | nmod:poss |
| 46 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 castles | amod |
| 47 | airy | airy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 castles | amod |
| 48 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 displays | obj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 gardens | cc |
| 50 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 51 gardens | amod |
| 51 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 castles | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 extends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | present | front of the Military School | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 2 | cut out a condition, not said to happen | participle | the Desert of Africa | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector desert=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | display | present | Fata | Fata's wondrous airy castles and hanging gardens | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hang | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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