Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 7
Its walls are built of coral, and the long, gothic windows are of the clearest amber.
Who acts: long gothic windows · What happens: build, be · To what, where: walls
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 (long gothic windows), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 walls | nmod:poss |
| 2 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 coral | case |
| 6 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 amber | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 amber | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 windows | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 windows | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 12 | gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 windows | amod |
| 13 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 amber | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 amber | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 amber | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 amber | det |
| 17 | clearest | clear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 amber | amod |
| 18 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | spot's walls | of coral | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the long gothic windows | of the clearest amber | tree rules |
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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