Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 3
The turkey-cock slept on the beam, and the saddle rested in the empty crib.
What happens: sleep, rest · To what, where: turkey cock, beam, saddle, empty crib
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cock | det |
| 2 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cock | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 turkey | punct |
| 4 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cock | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 beam | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beam | det |
| 8 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saddle | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saddle | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 saddle | det |
| 12 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cock | conj |
| 13 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saddle | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 crib | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 crib | det |
| 16 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crib | amod |
| 17 | crib | crib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rested | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | participle | the turkey cock and the saddle not said here | the beam | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rest | participle | the saddle not said here | the empty crib | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crib=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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