Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 23
On each leaf stood a row of capital letters, every one having a small letter by its side.
Who acts: one · What happens: stand, have · To what, where: row, leaf, small letter
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 (one), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 leaf | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 leaf | det |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 row | det |
| 6 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 letters | case |
| 8 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 letters | amod |
| 9 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 row | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 row | appos |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 one | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 letter | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 letter | amod |
| 16 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 having | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 side | nmod:poss |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 having | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a row of capital letters | each leaf | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent row=Theme on leaf=Destination | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | every one not said here | a small letter | by row's side | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
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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