Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 47
At each castle stood little princes acting as sentinels.
Who acts: little princes · What happens: stand, act · To what, where: little princes, castle
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 (little princes), 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 castle | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 castle | det |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princes | amod |
| 6 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | acting | act | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 princes | acl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 sentinels | case |
| 9 | sentinels | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 acting | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | little princes | each castle | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme at castle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | act | gerund | little princes not said here | as sentinels | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as sentinel=Attribute |
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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