Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 19
In the hollow way in the clayey bank, many had scratched their names as a remembrance.
Who acts: treasure · What happens: scratch, name · To what, where: many, hollow way
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 (treasure), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 3 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 way | amod |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scratched | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bank | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bank | det |
| 7 | clayey | clayey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bank | amod |
| 8 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 way | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 scratched | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 scratched | aux |
| 12 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 names | nmod:poss |
| 14 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scratched | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 remembrance | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 remembrance | det |
| 17 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scratched | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 scratched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | past · perfect · passive | many | the hollow way in the clayey bank | as a remembrance | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient name=Result | |||
| 2 | name | treasure | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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