Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 111

There sat something pointed, straight out of the soft mould.

What happens: sit · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 sat	expl
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 sat	obj
4	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 something	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mould	punct
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 mould	advmod
7	out	out	ADP	_	11 mould	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 mould	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mould	det
10	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mould	amod
11	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past		something		there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme

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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