Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 61
"No; I did not see any of the eruptions which are represented in those pictures; but I will show you a sketch of my own, which represents an eruption I once saw."
Who acts: organist, sketch · What happens: not see, represent, show, see · To what, where: any, eruptions, sketch, you, eruption
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 (organist, sketch), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 eruptions | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eruptions | det |
| 11 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 any | nmod |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 represented | aux:pass |
| 14 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 eruptions | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 pictures | case |
| 16 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 pictures | det |
| 17 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 represented | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 show | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 show | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 show | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 show | aux |
| 22 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 show | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sketch | det |
| 25 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 show | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 own | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 own | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sketch | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 represents | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 represents | nsubj |
| 31 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sketch | acl:relcl |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 eruption | det |
| 33 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 represents | obj |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 saw | nsubj |
| 35 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 36 saw | advmod |
| 36 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 eruption | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | past · do-support | organist | any | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | represent in a quote | present · passive | the eruptions | in that pictures | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in picture=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | show in a quote | future | organist | a sketch of my own | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sketch=Topic | |||
| 4 | represent in a quote | present | a sketch of my own | a eruption | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot eruption=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | past | organist | a eruption not said here | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eruption=Stimulus |
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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