Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 197
She was as a living reality in his little dwelling in the Danish land.
Who acts: Lady · What happens: be · To what, where: little dwelling
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reality | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reality | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 reality | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reality | det |
| 5 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reality | compound |
| 6 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dwelling | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dwelling | amod |
| 10 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reality | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 13 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 land | amod |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwelling | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reality | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Lady | weather's little dwelling in the Danish land | as a living reality | tree rules |
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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