Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 73
The spirit of the watchman therefore understood very well the language of the inhabitants of the moon.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: understand · To what, where: language
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 (spirit), 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 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 watchman | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 watchman | det |
| 5 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spirit | nmod |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 understood | advmod |
| 7 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 well | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 language | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 language | det |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 understood | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 inhabitants | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 inhabitants | det |
| 14 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 language | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 moon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moon | det |
| 17 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 inhabitants | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the spirit of the watchman | the language of the inhabitants of the moon | therefore property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |
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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