Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 106
A pretty Barbel, with spotted skin, and an enviably round back, declared that the "human fry" were still there.
Who acts: pretty Barbel, human fry · What happens: spot, declare, be
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: who acts (pretty Barbel, human fry), 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 | 3 Barbel | det |
| 2 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Barbel | amod |
| 3 | Barbel | Barbel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 declared | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 skin | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 skin | case |
| 6 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 skin | amod |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Barbel | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 round | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 round | cc |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 round | det |
| 11 | enviably | enviably | ADV | _ | 12 round | advmod |
| 12 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Barbel | appos |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 round | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Barbel | punct |
| 15 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 there | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fry | det |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 fry | punct |
| 19 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fry | amod |
| 20 | fry | fry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 there | nsubj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 fry | punct |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 there | cop |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 there | advmod |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 declared | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | a pretty Barbel | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the human fry | still | there 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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