Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 57
So that is a burning mountain; but is it not very dangerous to the people who live near it?"
Who acts: that, mountain, people · What happens: burn, be, not be, live · To what, where: burning mountain, mountain
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 (that, mountain, people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 mountain | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 mountain | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mountain | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 5 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mountain | amod |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 dangerous | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 dangerous | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dangerous | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dangerous | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 dangerous | advmod |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 dangerous | advmod |
| 13 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mountain | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dangerous | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 live | nsubj |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 people | acl:relcl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 live | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mountain | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mountain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | a burning mountain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | mountain | to the people; dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | present | the people | mountain | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near it=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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