Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 8
The silver and gold which is plentiful in the hill will be polished and placed out in the moonlight."
Who acts: silver · What happens: be, polish, place out · To what, where: hill, silver, moonlight
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 (silver), 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 | 2 silver | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 polished | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gold | cc |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 silver | conj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 plentiful | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 plentiful | cop |
| 7 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 silver | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hill | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hill | det |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plentiful | obl |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 polished | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 polished | aux:pass |
| 13 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 placed | cc |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 polished | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 placed | compound:prt |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 moonlight | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moonlight | det |
| 19 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 polished | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 polished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the silver and gold | the hill | plentiful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | polish | future · passive | the silver and gold | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | place out | participle | the moonlight | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in moonlight=Destination |
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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