Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 10
Among the company was a lady singer, a real and great singer.
What happens: be · To what, where: lady singer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 company | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 company | det |
| 3 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 singer | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 singer | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 singer | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 singer | compound |
| 7 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 singer | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 singer | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 singer | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 great | cc |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 real | conj |
| 13 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 singer | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 singer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a lady singer and a real singer | among the company | 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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