Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 88
There she sat astride, as if on horseback, well wrapped up in her flowered cloak with one leg hanging out--a leg in a tremendous fur boot.
Who acts: aunt, one leg · What happens: sit, wrap up, flower, hang out · To what, where: leg, tremendous fur boot, flowered cloak
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 (aunt, one leg), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | astride | astride | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 horseback | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 horseback | case |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 horseback | mark |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 horseback | case |
| 9 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wrapped | punct |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 wrapped | advmod |
| 12 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sat | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cloak | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 16 | flowered | flower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 cloak | amod |
| 17 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wrapped | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 leg | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 leg | nummod |
| 20 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cloak | nmod |
| 21 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 leg | acl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 hanging | compound:prt |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 leg | det |
| 25 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 boot | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 boot | det |
| 28 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 boot | amod |
| 29 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 boot | compound |
| 30 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | aunt | a leg | a tremendous fur boot; there | astride property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme in boot=Location | ||
| 2 | wrap up | participle | aunt not said here | aunt's flowered cloak with one leg | well property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloak=Destination | |||
| 3 | flower | participle | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | hang out | gerund | one leg not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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