Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 8
The keyhole of the door close by she calls her turret window; through this she can see half Rome, as far as the mighty cupola of St. Peter's.
Who acts: keyhole · What happens: call, see · To what, where: turret window, half Rome, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (keyhole), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 keyhole | det |
| 2 | keyhole | keyhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keyhole | nmod |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 calls | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 calls | nsubj |
| 9 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 close | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 window | nmod:poss |
| 11 | turret | turret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 window | compound |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 calls | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 see | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 close | advcl |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 Rome | compound |
| 20 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 far | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 see | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 cupola | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cupola | det |
| 26 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cupola | amod |
| 27 | cupola | cupola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 far | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Peter | case |
| 29 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Peter | nmod:desc |
| 30 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 cupola | nmod |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Peter | case |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | keyhole | keyhole's turret window | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent window=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | see | can | keyhole | half Rome | this | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rome=Stimulus |
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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