Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 8
The roof is formed of shells, that open and close as the water flows over them.
Who acts: water · What happens: form, flow · To what, where: roof
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 (water), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roof | det |
| 2 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 formed | aux:pass |
| 4 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 shells | case |
| 6 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 formed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 open | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 open | nsubj |
| 9 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 formed | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 close | cc |
| 11 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 open | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 flows | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flows | nsubj |
| 15 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 close | advcl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flows | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present · passive | the roof | of shells | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flow | present | the water | over shells = shell | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Location |
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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