Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 52
He looked down from above on the 'Judgment of Solomon,' and fell asleep over it.
Who acts: Judgment · What happens: look down, fall, judge · To what, where: Judgment, stuff, Solomon
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Judgment), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 above | case |
| 5 | above | above | ADV | _ | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Judgment | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Judgment | det |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Judgment | punct |
| 9 | Judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Solomon | case |
| 11 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Judgment | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Judgment | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Judgment | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fell | xcomp |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | Judgment | the Judgment of Solomon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from above=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Judgment not said here | stuff | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over it=Location | |||
| 3 | judge | Solomon | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: of=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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