Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 99
In the hot time of the year the people yonder go into the water; first they take off their scales, and then they swim.
Who acts: people · What happens: go, take off, swim · To what, where: water, scales
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 (people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 take | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | parataxis |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 take | compound:prt |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 scales | nmod:poss |
| 21 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 take | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 swim | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 swim | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 swim | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 swim | nsubj |
| 26 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the people | the water | time | yonder property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | take off | present | people | people's scales | first property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Theme | |||
| 3 | swim | present | people | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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