Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 62
Within this hollow stood a large town; we may form some idea of its appearance by pouring the white of an egg into a glass of water.
Who acts: we · What happens: stand, form, pour · To what, where: large town, idea, white, glass
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 (we), 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 3 hollow | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hollow | det |
| 3 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 form | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 form | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 form | aux |
| 11 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 idea | det |
| 13 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 form | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 appearance | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 16 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 idea | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 pouring | mark |
| 18 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 form | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 white | det |
| 20 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pouring | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 egg | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 egg | det |
| 23 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 white | nmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 glass | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 glass | det |
| 26 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pouring | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 glass | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a large town | within this hollow | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | form | may | we | some idea of idea's appearance | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location idea=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pour | gerund | we not said here | the white of a egg | a glass of water | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent white=Theme into glass=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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