Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 61
The interior had the appearance of a large hollow, bowl-shaped, with a depth about half a mile from the brim.
Who acts: interior · What happens: have, shape · To what, where: appearance
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: who acts (interior), 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 interior | det |
| 2 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 appearance | det |
| 5 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 depth | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 depth | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 depth | amod |
| 9 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 depth | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hollow | punct |
| 11 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaped | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 bowl | punct |
| 13 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 depth | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 depth | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 depth | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 depth | det |
| 17 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appearance | nmod |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 half | advmod |
| 19 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 21 mile | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mile | det |
| 21 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 depth | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 brim | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 brim | det |
| 24 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mile | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the interior | the appearance of a large hollow shaped depth half mile from the brim | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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