Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 23
Before her stood a glass bowl containing four gold-fish.
Who acts: light, glass bowl · What happens: stand, contain · To what, where: glass bowl, four gold fish
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: who acts (light, glass bowl), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bowl | det |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bowl | compound |
| 6 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 7 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 bowl | acl |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 fish | nummod |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fish | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 gold | punct |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 containing | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | light | a glass bowl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bowl=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | contain | gerund | a glass bowl not said here | four gold fish | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fish=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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