Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 196
Some he seated in front of him, and some behind, but always inquired first, "How stands the mark-book?"
Who acts: Some · What happens: seat, inquire, stand · To what, where: front, mark book · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 front | case |
| 5 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 front | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 behind | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 behind | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 behind | nsubj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 3 seated | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 inquired | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 inquired | cc |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 inquired | advmod |
| 15 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seated | conj |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 inquired | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stands | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 stands | punct |
| 19 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 stands | advmod |
| 20 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 book | det |
| 22 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 book | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 mark | punct |
| 24 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stands | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 stands | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | Some | front of Ole | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | participle | Some not said here | always, first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | present | Some not said here | the mark book | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=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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