Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 23
It was the representation of a handsome boy, carved out of pure white stone, which had fallen to the bottom of the sea from a wreck.
Who acts: statue, representation, pure white stone · What happens: be, carve out, fall · To what, where: representation, pure white stone, wreck
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (statue, representation, pure white stone), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 representation | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 representation | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 representation | det |
| 4 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 boy | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boy | amod |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 representation | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carved | punct |
| 10 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 representation | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 13 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stone | amod |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stone | amod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carved | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fallen | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fallen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fallen | aux |
| 19 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 stone | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 bottom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bottom | det |
| 22 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fallen | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bottom | nmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 wreck | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 wreck | det |
| 28 | wreck | wreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fallen | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 representation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | statue | the representation | of a handsome boy | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carve out | participle | the representation not said here | pure white stone | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | pure white stone | a wreck | to the bottom of the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location from wreck=Destination |
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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