Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 11
He wavered in a condition between sleeping and waking.
Who acts: head, condition · What happens: waver, sleep, wake · To what, where: condition
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, condition), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wavered | nsubj |
| 2 | wavered | waver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 condition | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 condition | det |
| 5 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wavered | obl |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 sleeping | case |
| 7 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 condition | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 waking | cc |
| 9 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sleeping | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wavered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waver | past | head | a condition | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in condition=Location | ||||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | a condition not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wake | gerund | a condition not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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