Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 88
She sat still and listened when the clergyman read the Bible in the evenings.
Who acts: Karen, clergyman · What happens: sit, listen, read · To what, where: Bible
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Karen, clergyman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 listened | cc |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 read | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clergyman | det |
| 8 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 read | nsubj |
| 9 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listened | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bible | det |
| 11 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 read | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 evenings | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 evenings | det |
| 14 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 read | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Karen | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | Karen not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | read | past | the clergyman | the Bible | evening | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bible=Topic |
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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