Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 4
In the middle of the shed stood a travelling carriage; the proprietor was inside, fast asleep, while the horses were being watered.
Who acts: proprietor · What happens: stand, travel, be, water · To what, where: travelling carriage, middle, horses
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: who acts (proprietor), 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 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 shed | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shed | det |
| 6 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 carriage | det |
| 9 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 carriage | amod |
| 10 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 inside | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 proprietor | det |
| 13 | proprietor | proprietor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inside | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 inside | cop |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 7 stood | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fast | punct |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 inside | conj |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fast | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 watered | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 watered | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horses | det |
| 22 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 watered | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 watered | aux:pass |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 watered | aux:pass |
| 25 | watered | water | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a travelling carriage | the middle of the shed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme in middle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | travel | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the proprietor | inside property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | water | past · passive | the horses | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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