Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 23
The fern was not wrong with its song of
Who acts: fern · What happens: not be, sing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fern), 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 fern | det |
| 2 | fern | fern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wrong | advmod |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 song | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 song | nmod:poss |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrong | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 song | case |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the fern | with fern's song; wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing | fern | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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