Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 52
Ugly monkeys sat high in the branches and clenched their teeth. "
Who acts: Ugly monkeys · What happens: sit, clench · To what, where: branches, teeth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ugly monkeys), 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 | Ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 monkeys | amod |
| 2 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sat | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 branches | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 branches | det |
| 7 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clenched | cc |
| 9 | clenched | clench | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 clenched | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Ugly monkeys | the branches | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location | |||
| 2 | clench | past | Ugly monkeys not said here | monkeys's teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
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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