Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 82
“Projecting over a narrow mountain-path there hangs an old feudal castle.
Who acts: Projecting · What happens: hang · To what, where: old feudal castle
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 (Projecting), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Projecting | punct |
| 2 | Projecting | projecting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hangs | nsubj |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 path | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 path | det |
| 5 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 path | amod |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 path | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 mountain | punct |
| 8 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Projecting | nmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 hangs | expl |
| 10 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 castle | amod |
| 13 | feudal | feudal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 castle | amod |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hangs | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang in a quote | present | Projecting over a narrow mountain path | a old feudal castle | there | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=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: «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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