Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 70
This great master painter could whistle like a blackbird.
Who acts: master painter · What happens: whistle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master painter), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 painter | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 master | amod |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 painter | compound |
| 4 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whistle | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 whistle | aux |
| 6 | whistle | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 blackbird | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 blackbird | det |
| 9 | blackbird | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whistle | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 whistle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | could | this master painter | like a blackbird | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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