Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 97
She sat in the pew with the clergyman's family, and when they had ended the psalm and looked up, they nodded and said, “It is right that thou art come!”
Who acts: congregation, walls, psalm, thou · What happens: sit, end, look up, nod, say, be · To what, where: pew, psalm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (congregation, walls, psalm, thou), 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pew | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pew | det |
| 5 | pew | pew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clergyman | det |
| 8 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 clergyman | case |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ended | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ended | cc |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 ended | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ended | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ended | aux |
| 16 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 sat | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 psalm | det |
| 18 | psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ended | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 looked | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nodded | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 nodded | nsubj |
| 24 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 nodded | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 right | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 right | punct |
| 29 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 right | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 right | cop |
| 31 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 said | ccomp |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 come | mark |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 come | nsubj |
| 34 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 come | aux |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 right | advcl |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 nodded | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | congregation | the pew | with the clergyman's family | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pew=Location | |||
| 2 | end | past · perfect | walls = wall | the psalm | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality psalm=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look up | past | congregation not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | nod | past | walls = wall | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | walls = wall not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | psalm | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | present · passive | thou | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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