Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 31
And the black forest snails actually spat at the flower.
Who acts: black forest snails · What happens: spat · To what, where: flower
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black forest snails), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snails | det |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snails | amod |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snails | compound |
| 5 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spat | nsubj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 spat | advmod |
| 7 | spat | spat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 flower | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flower | det |
| 10 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spat | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spat | present | the black forest snails | the flower | actually property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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