Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 64
Where are the arches of triumph, the Boulevards, the wondrous building of the world?
Who acts: arches · What happens: be
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: who acts (arches), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 arches | det |
| 4 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 triumph | case |
| 6 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arches | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Boulevards | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Boulevards | det |
| 9 | Boulevards | Boulevard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 arches | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 building | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 building | det |
| 12 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 building | amod |
| 13 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Boulevards | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 building | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the arches of triumph the Boulevards | where property | 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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