Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 2
And they salute the old castle with cannons, "Boom, boom," which is as if they said, "Good-day."
Who acts: hundreds · What happens: salute, be · To what, where: old castle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundreds), 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 | _ | 3 salute | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 salute | nsubj |
| 3 | salute | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 castle | amod |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 salute | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cannons | case |
| 8 | cannons | cannon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 castle | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Boom | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Boom | punct |
| 11 | Boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 salute | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boom | punct |
| 13 | boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Boom | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 salute | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 salute | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 said | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | cop |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 said | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 said | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 salute | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 day | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 day | punct |
| 24 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 day | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Good | punct |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 salute | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 salute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salute | present | hundreds = hundred | the old castle | with cannons | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | day | say property | 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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