Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 54
He showed them colored plates of Naples, and spoke of excursions to Mount Vesuvius, and the eruptions of fire from it.
Who acts: Alfred, waters, fire · What happens: show, color, speak, erupt · To what, where: plates · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Alfred, waters, fire), 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 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 colored | nsubj |
| 4 | colored | color | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | ccomp |
| 5 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 colored | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Naples | case |
| 7 | Naples | Naples | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 plates | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spoke | cc |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 excursions | case |
| 12 | excursions | excursion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spoke | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Mount | case |
| 14 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 excursions | nmod |
| 15 | Vesuvius | Vesuvius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mount | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eruptions | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eruptions | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eruptions | det |
| 19 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 showed | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fire | case |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eruptions | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fire | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Alfred | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | color | past | waters = water | plates of Naples | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | of excursions to Mount | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | erupt | fire from fire | nom eruption «event intransitive»: of=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.
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