Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 32
The old goblin is a true-hearted, honest, old Norwegian graybeard; cheerful and straightforward.
Who acts: old goblin · What happens: be · To what, where: honest old Norwegian graybeard
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old goblin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goblin | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goblin | amod |
| 3 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 graybeard | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 graybeard | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 graybeard | det |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hearted | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
| 8 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 graybeard | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hearted | punct |
| 10 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 graybeard | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 honest | punct |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 graybeard | amod |
| 13 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 graybeard | amod |
| 14 | graybeard | graybeard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cheerful | punct |
| 16 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 graybeard | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 straightforward | cc |
| 18 | straightforward | straightforward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cheerful | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 graybeard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the old goblin | a honest old Norwegian graybeard | tree rules |
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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