Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 17

Here sat two female figures, a young and an old one.

What happens: sit · To what, where: two female figures

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sat	advmod
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 figures	nummod
4	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 figures	amod
5	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 young	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 young	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 young	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

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