Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 16
The following verses were written on the pink paper:--
What happens: follow, write · To what, where: following verses, pink paper
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 verses | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 verses | amod |
| 3 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 written | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 written | aux:pass |
| 5 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 paper | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 paper | det |
| 8 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 paper | amod |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 written | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 written | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | the following verses | the pink paper | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on paper=Destination |
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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