Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 18
Just over the fowls sat the owl, with father owl and the little owls.
Who acts: fowls · What happens: sit · To what, where: owl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fowls), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 fowls | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fowls | det |
| 4 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 owl | det |
| 7 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 owl | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 owl | case |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 owl | compound |
| 11 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 owls | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 owls | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 owls | amod |
| 15 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 owl | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the fowls | the owl | with father owl and the little owls | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location owl=Theme |
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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