Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 28
He has been three days creeping to the top of that stalk.
Who acts: youngster, three days · What happens: be, creep · To what, where: three days, top
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngster, three days), 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 | 5 days | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 days | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 days | cop |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 days | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 top | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 creeping | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stalk | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 stalk | det |
| 12 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 days | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | youngster | three days | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | creep | gerund | three days not said here | the top of that stalk | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination |
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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