Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 18
It was a wooden bird, the parrot which is used as a target as Prastoe.
Who acts: battle · What happens: be, use · To what, where: wooden bird, parrot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle), 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 | 5 bird | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bird | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 4 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bird | amod |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 parrot | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 parrot | det |
| 8 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bird | appos |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 used | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 used | aux:pass |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 parrot | acl:relcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 target | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 target | det |
| 14 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 used | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Prastoe | case |
| 16 | Prastoe | Prastoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 target | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | battle | a wooden bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | the parrot | as a target as Prastoe | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as target=Attribute |
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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