Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 61
The whole court was present, and the little kitchen-maid had received permission to stand by the door.
Who acts: whole court · What happens: be, receive, stand · To what, where: little kitchen maid
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: who acts (whole court), 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 | 3 court | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 court | amod |
| 3 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 present | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 present | cop |
| 5 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 received | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 received | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maid | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maid | amod |
| 10 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 maid | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 kitchen | punct |
| 12 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 received | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 received | aux |
| 14 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 present | conj |
| 15 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 received | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stand | mark |
| 17 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 permission | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stand | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the whole court | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | past · perfect · passive | the little kitchen maid | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme permission=Location | |||||
| 3 | stand | to-infinitive | by the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=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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