Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 108
"Those are mountains covered with perpetual snows, that you see yonder," said her mother.
Who acts: you, mother · What happens: be, cover, see, say · To what, where: mountains, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 mountains | det |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mountains | cop |
| 4 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | nsubj |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 mountains | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 snows | case |
| 7 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snows | compound |
| 8 | snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 see | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mountains | parataxis |
| 13 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 12 see | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that mountains | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cover in a quote | participle | that mountains not said here | with perpetual snows | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | you | that | yonder property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Helga's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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