Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 54
See, it is so wet, it runs through one's fingers."
Who acts: you, ditch · What happens: see, be, run · To what, where: fingers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ditch), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wet | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wet | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wet | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 wet | advmod |
| 6 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 See | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 runs | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 runs | nsubj |
| 9 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 fingers | case |
| 11 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 one | case |
| 13 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 runs | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | ditch | wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | present | ditch | one's fingers | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through finger=Trajectory |
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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