Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 68
It is one of those splendid sights which we can never see on earth.
Who acts: ball, we · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: one, splendid sights, earth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, we), 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 | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sights | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 sights | det |
| 6 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sights | amod |
| 7 | sights | sight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 see | obj |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 see | advmod |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sights | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ball | one | of that splendid sights | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not see | can | we | that splendid sights | earth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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