Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 19
Over it the fresh streaming water was carried on arches; and quite at the top hung the tangled net of gas-pipes and telegraph-wires.
Who acts: top · What happens: carry, hang · To what, where: fresh streaming water, tangled net
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 (top), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 water | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 water | amod |
| 5 | streaming | streaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | compound |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | aux:pass |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 arches | case |
| 10 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carried | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 hung | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hung | cc |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 top | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 top | det |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hung | nsubj |
| 17 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 net | det |
| 19 | tangled | tangled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 net | amod |
| 20 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hung | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pipes | case |
| 22 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pipes | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 gas | punct |
| 24 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 net | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wires | cc |
| 26 | telegraph | telegraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wires | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 telegraph | punct |
| 28 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pipes | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | the fresh streaming water | on arches | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | the top | the tangled net of gas pipes and telegraph wires | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Patient |
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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