Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 24
In the clayey bank the martens built their nest.
Who acts: martens · What happens: build · To what, where: nest, clayey bank
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 (martens), 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 bank | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bank | det |
| 3 | clayey | clayey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bank | amod |
| 4 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 martens | det |
| 6 | martens | marten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 built | nsubj |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nest | nmod:poss |
| 9 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the martens | martens's nest | the clayey bank | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product |
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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