Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 1
Near the grass-covered rampart which encircles Copenhagen lies a great red house.
Who acts: covered rampart, great red house · What happens: cover, encircle, lie · To what, where: Copenhagen, covered rampart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (covered rampart, great red house), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 6 rampart | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rampart | det |
| 3 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 grass | punct |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rampart | amod |
| 6 | rampart | rampart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 encircles | nsubj |
| 8 | encircles | encircle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rampart | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 encircles | obj |
| 10 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | encircle | present | the covered rampart | Copenhagen | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme copenhagen=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | a great red house | the covered rampart | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near rampart=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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