Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 24
It is shameful that the lamps are not lighted here, and it is as muddy as if one were walking in a marsh."
Who acts: Holm, one · What happens: be, not light, walk · To what, where: lamps, marsh
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holm, one), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shameful | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shameful | cop |
| 3 | shameful | shameful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 lighted | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lamps | det |
| 6 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lighted | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 lighted | advmod |
| 9 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shameful | advcl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 lighted | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 muddy | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 muddy | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 muddy | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 muddy | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 muddy | advmod |
| 16 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shameful | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 walking | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 walking | mark |
| 19 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 walking | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 walking | aux |
| 21 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 muddy | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 marsh | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 marsh | det |
| 24 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shameful | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shameful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | shameful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not light | present · passive | the lamps | here | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Holm | muddy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk | past · progressive | one | a marsh | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in marsh=Trajectory |
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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