Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 39
There was a whole row of them standing from the town-gates to the palace.
Who acts: whole row · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: town gates
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole row), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:1103): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 row | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 row | amod |
| 5 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 row | nmod |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 row | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 gates | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gates | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gates | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 town | punct |
| 13 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 standing | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a whole row of People | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | a whole row of People not said here | the town gates | to the palace | vn assuming_position-50 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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