Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 51
It is as pleasant as lying in a wet ditch.
Who acts: moisture · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: wet ditch
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 (moisture), 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 pleasant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleasant | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 pleasant | advmod |
| 4 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 lying | mark |
| 6 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 pleasant | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ditch | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ditch | det |
| 9 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ditch | amod |
| 10 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lying | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | moisture | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | moisture not said here | a wet ditch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ditch=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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