Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 135
The bridal pair were seated on the floor, leaning against the leg of the table, looking very thoughtful, and with good reason.
What happens: seat, lean, look · To what, where: bridal pair, floor, leg
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 pair | det |
| 2 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pair | amod |
| 3 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | aux:pass |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 floor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 floor | det |
| 8 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaning | punct |
| 10 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 seated | advcl |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 leg | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leg | det |
| 13 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaning | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 table | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 table | det |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leg | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looking | punct |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 leaning | conj |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 thoughtful | advmod |
| 20 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looking | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 reason | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 reason | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 reason | case |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 reason | amod |
| 25 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | the bridal pair | the floor | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | lean | gerund | the leg of the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against leg=Location | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | thoughtful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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