Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 60
Sometimes it would be a man hanging on a gibbet and holding a heart in his hand as if he had been stealing hearts.
Who acts: visit, man, lawyer · What happens: be, hang, hold, steal · To what, where: man, gibbet, heart, hand, hearts
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visit, man, lawyer), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 man | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 man | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 man | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 gibbet | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 gibbet | det |
| 10 | gibbet | gibbet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hanging | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 holding | cc |
| 12 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hanging | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 heart | det |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holding | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holding | obl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 stealing | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 stealing | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stealing | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stealing | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 stealing | aux |
| 23 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hanging | advcl |
| 24 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stealing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | visit | a man | sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hang | gerund | a man not said here | a gibbet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on gibbet=Location | ||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | a man not said here | a heart | lawyer's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent heart=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 4 | steal | past · perfect · progressive | lawyer | hearts | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heart=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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