Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 38
He sought shelter in the church, and shut gate and door behind him.
Who acts: King · What happens: seek · To what, where: shelter, church
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sought | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 church | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gate | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gate | cc |
| 9 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gate | amod |
| 10 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sought | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 door | cc |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gate | conj |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gate | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | King | shelter | the church | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme in church=Location |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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