Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 15
The Councillor saw quite distinctly before him a lantern burning, and behind this a large handsome house.
Who acts: Councillor, lantern · What happens: see, burn · To what, where: lantern, large handsome house
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Councillor, lantern), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 distinctly | advmod |
| 5 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lantern | det |
| 9 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 10 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 lantern | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 house | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 house | cc |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 house | nsubj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 house | amod |
| 17 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 house | amod |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Councillor | a lantern | a large handsome house | before man | distinctly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lantern=Stimulus | |
| 2 | burn | gerund | a lantern not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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