Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 105
Even the barrow was tempted to hop upon one of its wheels.
What happens: tempt, hop · To what, where: barrow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 barrow | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 barrow | det |
| 3 | barrow | barrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tempted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tempted | aux:pass |
| 5 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hop | mark |
| 7 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tempted | xcomp |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hop | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wheels | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wheels | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tempt | past · passive | the barrow | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hop | to-infinitive | upon one of barrow's wheels | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon one=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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