Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 1
We will pay a visit to Switzerland, and wander through that country of mountains, whose steep and rocky sides are overgrown with forest trees.
Who acts: We · What happens: pay, wander, overgrow · To what, where: visit, Switzerland, country, steep sides
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pay | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pay | aux |
| 3 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 visit | det |
| 5 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pay | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Switzerland | case |
| 7 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wander | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wander | cc |
| 10 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pay | parataxis |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wander | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mountains | case |
| 15 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 country | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 overgrown | punct |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 sides | nmod:poss |
| 18 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sides | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rocky | cc |
| 20 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 steep | conj |
| 21 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 overgrown | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 overgrown | aux:pass |
| 23 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 mountains | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 trees | case |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 trees | compound |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 overgrown | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | future | We | a visit | Switzerland | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | |||
| 2 | wander | present | that country of mountains | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | overgrow | present · passive | steep sides | with forest trees | 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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