Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 25
Now they are vanishing points in that new underground world--that wonder of the present day--the sewers of Paris.
Who acts: CATACOMBS · What happens: vanish, wonder · To what, where: points, new underground world, present day
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 (CATACOMBS), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 vanishing | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 vanishing | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanishing | aux |
| 4 | vanishing | vanish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vanishing | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 world | nsubj |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 world | amod |
| 9 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 world | amod |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vanishing | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 wonder | punct |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 wonder | det |
| 13 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 world | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wonder | nmod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 sewers | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sewers | det |
| 20 | sewers | sewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vanishing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Paris | case |
| 22 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sewers | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanishing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | present · progressive | CATACOMBS = catacomb | points | new underground world | now | the sewers of Paris obl | tree rules | |
| 2 | wonder | the present day | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=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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