Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 61
Sometimes it was an old witch riding through the air on a broom and carrying her husband on her nose.
Who acts: visit, old witch · What happens: be, ride, carry · To what, where: old witch, air, husband, nose
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, old witch), 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 witch | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 witch | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 witch | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 witch | amod |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 witch | acl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riding | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 broom | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 broom | det |
| 13 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riding | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carrying | cc |
| 15 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 riding | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carrying | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 nose | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 nose | nmod:poss |
| 20 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carrying | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | visit | a old witch | sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ride | gerund | a old witch not said here | the air | on a broom | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | carry | gerund | a old witch not said here | Ida's husband | Ida's nose | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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