Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 4
And then the projecting windows stand so far out, that no one can see from our windows what happens in that direction!
Who acts: projecting windows, one, windows · What happens: stand, see, happen · To what, where: windows, direction
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: who acts (projecting windows, one, windows), 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 stand | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stand | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 windows | det |
| 4 | projecting | projecting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 windows | compound |
| 5 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 out | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 out | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 stand | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stand | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 windows | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 windows | nmod:poss |
| 18 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 see | obl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 happens | nsubj |
| 20 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 windows | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 direction | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 direction | det |
| 23 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 happens | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the projecting windows | then | out property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | can | no one | our windows | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | happen | present | our windows | that direction | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=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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