Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 14
There slept the quiet old lady, who had not gone out of her house once for the last year.
Who acts: quiet old lady · What happens: sleep, not go out · To what, where: quiet old lady, house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quiet old lady), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 slept | expl |
| 2 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slept | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gone | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 gone | advmod |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 lady | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | obl |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 slept | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 year | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 year | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 year | amod |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slept | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the quiet old lady | there | year | once property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | ||
| 2 | not go out | past · perfect | the quiet old lady | van's house | tree rules |
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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