Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 4
In the scanty turf that covers the hill-side names have been cut.
Who acts: scanty turf, hill side · What happens: cover, cut · To what, where: hill side, names
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scanty turf, hill side), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 turf | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 turf | det |
| 3 | scanty | scanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turf | compound |
| 4 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 covers | nsubj |
| 6 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 turf | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hill | punct |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covers | obj |
| 11 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cut | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 cut | aux:pass |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 side | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | the scanty turf | the hill side | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cut | present · perfect · passive | the hill side not said here | names | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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