Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 28

But in the gabled window of the knightly castle, the lady of the castle sat with the parchment roll before her, and wrote down the old recollections in song and legend, while near her stood the old woman from the wood, and the travelling peddler who went wandering through the country.

Who acts: travelling peddler · What happens: sit, write down, stand, travel, go, wonder · To what, where: gabled window, old recollections, song, old woman, wood, country

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelling peddler), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 window	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
4	gabled	gabled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 window	amod
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 castle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
8	knightly	knightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 castle	amod
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 window	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lady	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lady	det
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 castle	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lady	nmod
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 roll	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 roll	det
19	parchment	parchment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roll	compound
20	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wrote	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wrote	cc
25	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 wrote	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 recollections	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 recollections	amod
29	recollections	recollection	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wrote	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 song	case
31	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 recollections	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 legend	cc
33	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 song	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stood	punct
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 stood	mark
36	near	near	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 stood	obl
38	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wrote	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 woman	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 woman	amod
41	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stood	obj
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 wood	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 wood	det
44	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stood	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 went	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 went	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 peddler	det
48	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 peddler	amod
49	peddler	peddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 went	nsubj
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 went	nsubj
51	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
52	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 went	xcomp
53	through	through	ADP	_	55 country	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 country	det
55	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 wandering	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past			the gabled window of the knightly castle and the lady of the castle	before stupidity	with the parchment roll	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in window=Location
2	write down	past		the old recollections	song and legend			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent recollection=Theme in song=Destination
3	stand	past		the old woman	the wood		near stupidity	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme near she=Destination
4	travel	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past	the travelling peddler					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the travelling peddler not said here		the country			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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