Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 41
"A young girl sat in a corner; and she read in a book these words:
Who acts: young girl, girl · What happens: sit, read · To what, where: corner, words, book
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girl, girl), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 corner | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 corner | det |
| 8 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 read | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 read | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 read | nsubj |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 book | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 book | det |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 read | obl |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 words | det |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 read | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | past | a young girl | a corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | ||||
| 2 | read in a quote | past | girl | this words | a book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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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