Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 21
Clamber away over the mountains; it was I who taught you to climb.
Who acts: Clamber · What happens: be, teach, climb · To what, where: I, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clamber), 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 | Clamber | clamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taught | nsubj |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Clamber | advmod |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 mountains | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mountains | det |
| 5 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Clamber | nmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 I | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 I | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 I | cop |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 taught | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 taught | nsubj |
| 11 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 taught | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 climb | mark |
| 14 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taught | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Clamber | I | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | Clamber over the mountains | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | climb | to-infinitive | Clamber over the mountains not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «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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