Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 59
In the kitchen the deer roasted on the spit before the fire.
What happens: roast · To what, where: deer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 kitchen | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kitchen | det |
| 3 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deer | det |
| 5 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kitchen | conj |
| 6 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 deer | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 spit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spit | det |
| 9 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roasted | obl |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roasted | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kitchen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | participle | the deer not said here | before the fire | on the spit | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on spit=Instrument |
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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