Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 12
Now, do give me a description of Rome.
Who acts: you · What happens: give, describe · To what, where: description, me, Rome
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 give | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 description | det |
| 7 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Rome | case |
| 9 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 description | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative · do-support | you not said here | a description of Rome | me | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient description=Theme | ||
| 2 | describe | Rome | nom description «communication transitive»: of=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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