Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 52
They clambered to the top of the rising ground, and found themselves on the edge of a declivity, which sloped down to a clear transparent lake.
Who acts: oaks, declivity · What happens: clamber, rise, find, slope down · To what, where: top, oaks, edge
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oaks, declivity), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 clambered | nsubj |
| 2 | clambered | clamber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clambered | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 8 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ground | amod |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clambered | conj |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 edge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 edge | det |
| 16 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 declivity | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 declivity | det |
| 19 | declivity | declivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 edge | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sloped | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sloped | nsubj |
| 22 | sloped | slope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 declivity | acl:relcl |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 sloped | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 lake | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 lake | det |
| 26 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lake | amod |
| 27 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lake | amod |
| 28 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sloped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clambered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clamber | past | oaks = oak | the top of the rising ground | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | ||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | find | past | oaks = oak not said here | oaks = oak | the edge of a declivity | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 4 | slope down | past | a declivity | to a clear transparent lake; down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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