Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 29
It was the mummy case on which I gazed.
Who acts: form, I · What happens: be, gaze · To what, where: mummy case
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 (form, I), 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 | 5 case | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 case | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 case | det |
| 4 | mummy | mummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 case | compound |
| 5 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gazed | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 gazed | nsubj |
| 9 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 case | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 case | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | form | the mummy case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gaze | past | I | on the mummy case | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on which=Theme |
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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