Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 60
In the centre of the great hall, a golden perch had been fixed for the nightingale to sit on.
What happens: fix, sit on · To what, where: golden perch, centre
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. 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 centre | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 centre | det |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fixed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hall | amod |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 centre | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 centre | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 perch | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 perch | amod |
| 11 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fixed | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 fixed | aux:pass |
| 14 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 nightingale | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nightingale | det |
| 17 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fixed | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sit | mark |
| 19 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fixed | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 sit | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · perfect · passive | a golden perch | the centre of the great hall | for the nightingale | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for nightingale=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | sit on | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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