Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 13
Anne Lisbeth's boy also sat in the sunshine on the top of the fence, cutting out a little toy.
Who acts: boy · What happens: sit, cut out · To what, where: sunshine, little toy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Lisbeth | Lisbeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Anne | flat |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Anne | case |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 sat | advmod |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sunshine | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sunshine | det |
| 9 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fence | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fence | det |
| 15 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cutting | punct |
| 17 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sat | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 cutting | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 toy | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 toy | amod |
| 21 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cutting | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Anne's boy | the sunshine | on the top of the fence | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location | |||
| 2 | cut out | gerund | Anne's boy not said here | a little toy | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector toy=Eventuality |
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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