Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 129
In the window-sill stood a myrtle in a pot, and this had been pushed a little on one side, that it might not fall out; for the old maid was leaning out of the window, that she might see.
Who acts: myrtle, old maid, maid · What happens: stand, push, not fall out, lean, see · To what, where: myrtle, window sill, this, one side, window
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (myrtle, old maid, maid), 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 | _ | 5 sill | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sill | det |
| 3 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sill | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 window | punct |
| 5 | sill | sill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 myrtle | det |
| 8 | myrtle | myrtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pot | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pot | det |
| 11 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pushed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pushed | cc |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pushed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 pushed | aux:pass |
| 17 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stood | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pushed | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 side | nummod |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pushed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fall | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 fall | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fall | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 fall | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 fall | advmod |
| 28 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pushed | advcl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 fall | compound:prt |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 leaning | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 leaning | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 maid | det |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 maid | amod |
| 34 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 leaning | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 leaning | aux |
| 36 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stood | advcl |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 window | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 window | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 window | det |
| 40 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 leaning | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 see | punct |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 see | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 see | nsubj |
| 44 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 see | aux |
| 45 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 leaning | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a myrtle | the window sill | in a pot | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myrtle=Theme in sill=Destination | |||
| 2 | push | past · perfect · passive | this | one side | a little obl:unmarked | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on side=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | not fall out | might | myrtle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lean | past · progressive | the old maid | the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out window=Location | ||||
| 5 | see | might | maid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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