Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 76
“I saw you all over there at home so distinctly, as if you really were here; it was again that Sunday morning; all you children stood before the table and sung your Psalms, as you do every morning.
Who acts: pewter soldier, you, visit, children · What happens: see, be, child, stand, sing, do · To what, where: you, Sunday morning, table, Psalms
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 (pewter soldier, you, visit, children), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 there | obl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 distinctly | advmod |
| 11 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 here | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 here | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 here | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 here | nsubj |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 here | advmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 here | cop |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 morning | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 morning | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 morning | cop |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 morning | advmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 morning | mark |
| 24 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 morning | compound |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 stood | punct |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 children | det |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 children | nsubj |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 stood | nsubj |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 table | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 table | det |
| 33 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sung | cc |
| 35 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 stood | conj |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 Psalms | nmod:poss |
| 37 | Psalms | psalm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 sung | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 do | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 do | mark |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 do | nsubj |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 stood | parataxis |
| 42 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 morning | det |
| 43 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 do | obl:unmarked |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | the pewter soldier = soldier | you | there | distinctly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | visit | Sunday morning | again | tree rules | |||
| 4 | child in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stand in a quote | past | all children | the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before table=Location | ||||
| 6 | sing speech: express in a quote | participle | all children not said here | your Psalms | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | present | you | morning | vn act-114-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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