Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 14
At the window of one of them sat a little boy with fresh rosy cheeks, and clear sparkling eyes, who was very fond of the old house, in sunshine or in moonlight.
Who acts: one, clear sparkling eyes · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: little boy, window
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, clear sparkling eyes), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 window | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 window | det |
| 3 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boy | amod |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cheeks | case |
| 13 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cheeks | amod |
| 14 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cheeks | amod |
| 15 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 boy | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eyes | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 eyes | cc |
| 18 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 19 | sparkling | sparkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eyes | compound |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sat | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fond | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 fond | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 fond | cop |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 fond | advmod |
| 25 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 house | amod |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fond | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sunshine | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 sunshine | case |
| 32 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | conj |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 moonlight | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 moonlight | case |
| 35 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sunshine | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | one of windows | a little boy | the window | with fresh rosy cheeks; clear sparkling eyes obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme at window=Location | ||
| 2 | is | past | clear sparkling eyes | of the old house; fond property | 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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