Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 2
Close beside it is the sea, the ever-changing sea, and between the two is placed the broad high-road.
Who acts: you, forest · What happens: close, be, change, place · To what, where: sea, two
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, forest), 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 | Close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sea | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sea | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Close | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sea | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 changing | advmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ever | punct |
| 11 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 sea | amod |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sea | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 placed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 placed | cc |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 two | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 two | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 placed | aux:pass |
| 19 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Close | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 21 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 road | amod |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 road | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 high | punct |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | imperative | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | forest | the sea and the changing sea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | gerund | ever | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | place | present · passive | the two | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme road=Destination |
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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