Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 8
In the wooden frame on the ground slept a wandering family of musicians.
What happens: sleep, wonder · To what, where: wandering family, wooden frame
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 frame | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 frame | det |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 frame | amod |
| 4 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slept | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frame | nmod |
| 8 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 family | det |
| 10 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 family | amod |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slept | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 musicians | case |
| 13 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 family | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | a wandering family of musicians | the wooden frame on the ground | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent family=Value in frame=Location | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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