Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 42
This was King Hroar of the Springs and near the springs stood the town of Roeskilde, as it is called.
Who acts: This, King Hroar · What happens: be, stand, call · To what, where: King Hroar, town, splashing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, King Hroar), 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 Hroar | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Hroar | cop |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Hroar | compound |
| 4 | Hroar | Hroar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Springs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Springs | det |
| 7 | Springs | Springs | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Hroar | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 springs | cc |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 springs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 springs | det |
| 11 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Hroar | conj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Roeskilde | case |
| 16 | Roeskilde | Roeskilde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 town | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 called | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stood | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | King Hroar and the springs | of the Springs | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past | King Hroar and the springs | the town of Roeskilde | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | splashing | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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