Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 5
In her solitude my old maid was always busy at the window, which was adorned in summer with pretty flowers, and in winter with cress, grown upon felt.
Who acts: old maid · What happens: be, adorn, grow · To what, where: solitude, window, felt
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 (old maid), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 solitude | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 solitude | nmod:poss |
| 3 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 busy | obl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 maid | nmod:poss |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maid | amod |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 busy | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 busy | cop |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 busy | advmod |
| 9 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 busy | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 adorned | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 adorned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 adorned | aux:pass |
| 16 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 window | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 summer | case |
| 18 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 adorned | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 flowers | case |
| 20 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flowers | amod |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 adorned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 grown | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 grown | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 winter | case |
| 25 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 grown | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 cress | case |
| 27 | cress | cress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 winter | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 winter | punct |
| 29 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 busy | conj |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 felt | case |
| 31 | felt | felt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 grown | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | my old maid | Moon's solitude | at the window; always, busy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | adorn | past · passive | the window | summer | with pretty flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=Theme | |||
| 3 | grow | participle | my old maid not said here | felt | winter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon felt=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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