Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 9
Mists are almost always hovering over this region, which, seventy years ago, was overrun with wolves.
Who acts: Mists · What happens: hover, overrun · To what, where: region
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mists), 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 | Mists | mist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hovering | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hovering | aux |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 always | advmod |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 hovering | advmod |
| 5 | hovering | hover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 region | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 region | det |
| 8 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hovering | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 overrun | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 overrun | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ago | punct |
| 12 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 overrun | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ago | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 overrun | aux:pass |
| 17 | overrun | overrun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 region | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 wolves | case |
| 19 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 overrun | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hovering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hover | present · progressive | Mists | this region | always property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over region=Location | |||
| 2 | overrun | past · passive | this region | with wolves; ago property | 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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