Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 10
The drummer beat a roll--a roll of joy.
Who acts: drummer · What happens: beat, roll · To what, where: roll, joy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drummer), 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 drummer | det |
| 2 | drummer | drummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | nsubj |
| 3 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 roll | det |
| 5 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 roll | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 roll | det |
| 8 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roll | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roll | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | the drummer | a roll and a roll of joy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roll=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll | joy | nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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