Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 92
There they sat, all three; and as for Alfred, a proverb may describe his position--he looked like a swan amongst the geese.
Who acts: mythologies, proverb · What happens: sit, describe, look · To what, where: three, position
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 (mythologies, proverb), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 three | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sat | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 as | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 as | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 3 sat | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 as | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 describe | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 proverb | det |
| 14 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 describe | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 describe | aux |
| 16 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Alfred | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 position | nmod:poss |
| 18 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 describe | obj |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 describe | parataxis |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 swan | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 swan | det |
| 24 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looked | obl |
| 25 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 27 geese | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 geese | det |
| 27 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 looked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | mythologies = mythology | all three | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location three=Theme | |||
| 2 | describe | may | a proverb | proverb's position | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent position=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | proverb | like a swan; amongst the geese | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent amongst goose=Theme |
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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