Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 47
The Councillor stood still, and watched a most strange procession pass by.
Who acts: Councillor · What happens: stand, watch · To what, where: strange procession pass
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: who acts (Councillor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Councillor | det |
| 2 | Councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 watched | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 watched | cc |
| 7 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pass | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 strange | advmod |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pass | amod |
| 11 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pass | compound |
| 12 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 watched | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Councillor | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | a strange procession pass | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=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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