Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 74
They were disputing about our earth, and doubted whether it could be inhabited.
Who acts: inhabitants · What happens: dispute, doubt, inhabit · To what, where: spirit
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 (inhabitants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 disputing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disputing | aux |
| 3 | disputing | dispute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 earth | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 earth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disputing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 doubted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 doubted | cc |
| 9 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disputing | parataxis |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 inhabited | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 inhabited | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 inhabited | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 14 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 doubted | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disputing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dispute | past · progressive | inhabitants = inhabitant | about our earth | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about earth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | doubt | past | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | inhabit | could · passive | spirit | tree rules |
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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