Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 5
This is the reason of the Emperor's horse wearing golden shoes.
Who acts: This, reason · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: reason, golden shoes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, reason), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 reason | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reason | det |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Emperor | det |
| 7 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Emperor | case |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reason | nmod |
| 10 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 reason | acl |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shoes | amod |
| 12 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wearing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the reason | of the Emperor's horse | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear | gerund | the reason not said here | golden shoes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=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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