Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 140
It is certainly cold in your forests, but still there is liberty there.
Who acts: prisoner · What happens: be · To what, where: forests, liberty
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 cold | advmod |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forests | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 forests | nmod:poss |
| 7 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cold | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 liberty | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 liberty | cc |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 is | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 liberty | cop |
| 13 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cold | conj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 liberty | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | prisoner | your forests | certainly, cold property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | prisoner not said here | liberty | there | 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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