Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 1
A heavy stone slab was turned and then lifted.
What happens: turn, lift · To what, where: heavy stone slab
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 slab | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slab | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slab | compound |
| 4 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | aux:pass |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lifted | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 lifted | advmod |
| 9 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · passive | a heavy stone slab | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lift | past | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: 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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