Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 106
And all that the little maiden, who sat behind on the stick, spoke of, flew by in reality.
What happens: sit, speak, fly · To what, where: stick · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 maiden | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 maiden | det:predet |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 maiden | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maiden | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 maiden | parataxis |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 9 sat | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 stick | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stick | det |
| 13 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sat | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spoke | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flew | punct |
| 18 | flew | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 spoke | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 reality | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 reality | case |
| 21 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flew | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the stick | behind property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=Location | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fly | participle | by reality | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by reality=Location |
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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