Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 21
The lions represent strength; and the hearts, gentleness and love."
Who acts: lions · What happens: represent · To what, where: strength
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 (lions), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lions | det |
| 2 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 represent | nsubj |
| 3 | represent | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 represent | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 hearts | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hearts | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hearts | det |
| 8 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 represent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gentleness | punct |
| 10 | gentleness | gentleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hearts | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 love | cc |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hearts | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hearts | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 represent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present | the lions | strength | the hearts and gentleness and love obl | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot strength=Theme |
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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