Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 13
They offer for sale the sweetest little toy-houses, models of the mountain cottages in Switzerland.
Who acts: children · What happens: offer, model · To what, where: mountain cottages
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 (children), 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 offer | nsubj |
| 2 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 sale | case |
| 4 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offer | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 houses | det |
| 6 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 houses | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 houses | amod |
| 8 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 houses | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 toy | punct |
| 10 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sale | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 models | punct |
| 12 | models | model | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 houses | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cottages | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cottages | det |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cottages | compound |
| 16 | cottages | cottage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 models | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Switzerland | case |
| 18 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cottages | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | children = child | for sale the sweetest little toy houses and models of the mountain cottages in Switzerland goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for sale=Goal | ||||
| 2 | model | the mountain cottages in Switzerland | nom model «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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