Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 6
They are wonderful to behold, and therefore in the summer time strangers come here from all parts of the world to see them.
Who acts: glaciers, time strangers · What happens: be, come, see · To what, where: parts, glaciers
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 (glaciers, time strangers), 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 | 3 wonderful | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonderful | cop |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 behold | case |
| 5 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 3 wonderful | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 8 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 13 strangers | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 strangers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 strangers | det |
| 11 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | compound |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strangers | compound |
| 13 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonderful | conj |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 parts | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 parts | det |
| 18 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 parts | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | glaciers = glacier | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present | the time strangers | all parts of the world; here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from part=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the time strangers not said here | glaciers = glacier | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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