Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 82
Men walked as in the depths of the deep pond, and held converse with the sea, in the diving-bell of glass.
Who acts: Men · What happens: walk, hold · To what, where: diving bell
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 (Men), 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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 depths | case |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 depths | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 depths | det |
| 6 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 walked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pond | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pond | det |
| 9 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pond | amod |
| 10 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 depths | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 14 | converse | converse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 held | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 converse | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bell | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bell | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bell | det |
| 21 | diving | diving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bell | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 diving | punct |
| 23 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 glass | case |
| 25 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bell | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Men | as the depths of the deep pond | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Men not said here | the diving bell of glass | converse property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bell=Location |
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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