Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 55
It is wet, and my town is just like a bottle.
Who acts: weather, town · What happens: be
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 (weather, town), 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 wet | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wet | cop |
| 3 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bottle | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bottle | cc |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 town | nmod:poss |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bottle | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bottle | cop |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 bottle | advmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 bottle | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bottle | det |
| 12 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wet | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | weather | wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my town | like a bottle | tree rules |
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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