Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 40
Its summit towered above all the other trees, and could be seen far out at sea, so that it served as a landmark to the sailors.
Who acts: summit, oak · What happens: tower, see, serve · To what, where: sea
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (summit, oak), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 summit | nmod:poss |
| 2 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 towered | nsubj |
| 3 | towered | tower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 trees | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trees | amod |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 towered | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seen | cc |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 towered | conj |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 out | advmod |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 seen | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 served | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 served | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 served | nsubj |
| 22 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 landmark | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 landmark | det |
| 25 | landmark | landmark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 served | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 sailors | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sailors | det |
| 28 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 served | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 towered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tower | participle | oak's summit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | could · passive | oak's summit not said here | sea | out property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||
| 3 | serve | past | oak | as a landmark; to the sailors | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as landmark=Attribute |
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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