Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 10
At the foot of the altar sat a living being, a young priest.
What happens: sit · To what, where: living, foot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 foot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 foot | det |
| 3 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 altar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 altar | det |
| 6 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 foot | nmod |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 living | det |
| 9 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 living | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 priest | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 priest | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 priest | amod |
| 14 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a living | the foot of the altar | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent living=Theme at foot=Location |
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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