Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 2
I was in the suburb in the Street of Tombs, as they call it, where the fair monuments stand, in the spot where, ages ago, the merry youths, their temples bound with rosy wreaths, danced with the fair sisters of Lais.
Who acts: I, Tombs, fair monuments · What happens: be, call, stand, bind, dance · To what, where: suburb, Street, spot, temples · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (I, Tombs, fair monuments), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 suburb | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suburb | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 suburb | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 suburb | det |
| 5 | suburb | suburb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Street | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Street | det |
| 8 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 suburb | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Tombs | case |
| 10 | Tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Street | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 call | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 call | nsubj |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 suburb | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 call | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stand | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 stand | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 monuments | det |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 monuments | amod |
| 20 | monuments | monument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stand | nsubj |
| 21 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 call | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 spot | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 spot | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spot | det |
| 25 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stand | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 spot | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ages | punct |
| 28 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 spot | conj |
| 29 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 28 ages | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 youths | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 youths | det |
| 32 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 youths | amod |
| 33 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 spot | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 temples | punct |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 temples | nmod:poss |
| 36 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stand | parataxis |
| 37 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 temples | acl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 wreaths | case |
| 39 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 wreaths | amod |
| 40 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 bound | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 danced | punct |
| 42 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 temples | acl |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 sisters | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 sisters | det |
| 45 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 sisters | amod |
| 46 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 danced | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Lais | case |
| 48 | Lais | Lais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 sisters | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suburb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | the suburb | in the Street of Tombs | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | present | Tombs = tomb | Street | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | present | the fair monuments | the spot and ages and the merry youths | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spot=Location | ||||
| 4 | bind | participle | monuments's temples not said here | with rosy wreaths | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with wreath=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | dance | participle | monuments's temples not said here | with the fair sisters of Lais | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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: «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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