Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 63
I will climb up these rocks, they are as high as the highest trees!"
Who acts: I, rocks · What happens: climb up, be · To what, where: rocks
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 (I, rocks), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 climb | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 climb | aux |
| 3 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climb | compound:prt |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 rocks | det |
| 6 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 climb | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 high | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 high | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 high | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 climb | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 14 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 trees | amod |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 high | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 climb | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | future | I | this rocks | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | rocks = rock | as the highest trees; high 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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