Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 51
He saw hostile warriors, in colored dresses and glittering armor, with spear and halberd, pitching their tents, and anon striking them.
Who acts: cuckoo, anon · What happens: see, glitter, pitch, strike · To what, where: hostile warriors, tents
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 (cuckoo, anon), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warriors | amod |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dresses | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dresses | case |
| 7 | colored | colored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dresses | amod |
| 8 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 warriors | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 armor | cc |
| 10 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 armor | amod |
| 11 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 warriors | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spear | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 spear | case |
| 14 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 halberd | cc |
| 16 | halberd | halberd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spear | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pitching | punct |
| 18 | pitching | pitch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | advcl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tents | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pitching | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 anon | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 anon | cc |
| 23 | anon | anon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | conj |
| 24 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 anon | acl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 striking | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | cuckoo | hostile warriors and colored dresses and glittering armor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer warrior=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | pitch | gerund | cuckoo not said here | spear's tents | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strike | gerund | anon not said here | tents = tent | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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