Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 6
This evening I looked through a window, before which no curtain was drawn, for nobody lives opposite.
Who acts: I, nobody · What happens: look, draw, live · To what, where: curtain, opposite
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nobody), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drawn | punct |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 drawn | obl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 curtain | det |
| 12 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drawn | aux:pass |
| 14 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 looked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 lives | mark |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 lives | nsubj |
| 18 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 drawn | advcl |
| 19 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lives | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | I | evening | through a window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw | past · passive | no curtain | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | present | nobody | opposite | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme opposite=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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