Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 94
They put on different scales two or three times a day, and they emit sounds which they call speaking.
Who acts: animals · What happens: put, emit, call, speak · To what, where: different scales, sounds · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (animals), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 scales | case |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scales | amod |
| 5 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obl |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 three | cc |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 two | conj |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scales | nmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 emit | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 emit | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 emit | nsubj |
| 15 | emit | emit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 16 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 emit | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 call | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 call | nsubj |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sounds | acl:relcl |
| 20 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 call | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | animals = animal | different scales two times a day | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on scale=Destination | ||||
| 2 | emit | present | animals = animal | sounds | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source sound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present | animals = animal | sounds | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | animals = animal not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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