Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 137
Up in the little garret there stands, half-dressed, a little Dancer.
Who acts: little garret · What happens: stand, dress · To what, where: little Dancer
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little garret), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 7 stands | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 garret | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garret | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 garret | amod |
| 5 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 garret | advmod |
| 7 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dressed | punct |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 dressed | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 half | punct |
| 11 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stands | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Dancer | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Dancer | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Dancer | amod |
| 15 | Dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dressed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the little garret | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dress | participle | the little garret not said here | a little Dancer | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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