Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 2
Some years ago, here in Copenhagen, I looked through the window of a mean little room.
Who acts: I · What happens: look
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third 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), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 years | det |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 here | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Copenhagen | case |
| 7 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 here | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 here | conj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 window | det |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 16 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 room | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 room | amod |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 window | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | I | through the window of a mean little room | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=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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