Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 20
The French could also do battle on the stones. "
Who acts: French · What happens: do · To what, where: battle, stones
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 French | det |
| 2 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stones | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stones | det |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | the French | battle | the stones | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality |
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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