Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 39
Ducks and pigeons have been killed, and a whole roebuck hangs on the wall.
Who acts: whole roebuck · What happens: kill, hang · To what, where: Ducks, wall
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole roebuck), 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 | Ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pigeons | cc |
| 3 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ducks | conj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 killed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 killed | aux:pass |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hangs | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hangs | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 roebuck | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 roebuck | amod |
| 11 | roebuck | roebuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hangs | nsubj |
| 12 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 killed | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hangs | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present · perfect · passive | Ducks and pigeons | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hang | present | a whole roebuck | the wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |
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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