Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 64
Our earth hung over his head like a great dark red ball.
Who acts: earth · What happens: hang · To what, where: head
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 (earth), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 earth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 ball | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ball | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ball | amod |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ball | amod |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ball | amod |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | Our earth | earth's head | like a great dark red ball | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over head=Location |
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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