Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 50
And there in the corner stood a waterpail, where I used to swim my boats.'
Who acts: I · What happens: stand, use, swim · To what, where: waterpail, corner, boats
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: who acts (I), 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 stood | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | expl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 corner | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 corner | det |
| 5 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 waterpail | det |
| 8 | waterpail | waterpail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 used | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 used | nsubj |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waterpail | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 swim | mark |
| 14 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 used | xcomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 boats | nmod:poss |
| 16 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swim | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a waterpail | the corner; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent waterpail=Theme in corner=Destination | ||||
| 2 | use | past | I | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | swim | to-infinitive | I not said here | my boats | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boat=Trajectory |
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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