Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 28
The largest of the turrets had a weather-cock, representing an apple pierced by a glittering arrow, in memory of William Tell.
Who acts: largest, memory · What happens: have, represent, pierce, glitter, tell · To what, where: weather cock, apple · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (largest, memory), 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 largest | det |
| 2 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 turrets | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 turrets | det |
| 5 | turrets | turret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cock | det |
| 8 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cock | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 weather | punct |
| 10 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 representing | punct |
| 12 | representing | represent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 had | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 apple | det |
| 14 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 representing | obj |
| 15 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 apple | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 arrow | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 arrow | det |
| 18 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 arrow | amod |
| 19 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pierced | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 memory | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 memory | case |
| 22 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Tell | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 William | case |
| 24 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 memory | nmod |
| 25 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 representing | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the largest | a weather cock | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient | ||||
| 2 | represent | gerund | the largest not said here | a apple | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot apple=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pierce | participle | a apple not said here | by a glittering arrow | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | memory of William | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/28/