Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 178
The prince walked to a window, and saw what appeared to be the tree of knowledge of good and evil, with Adam and Eve standing by, and the serpent near them. "
Who acts: prince, Adam · What happens: walk, see, appear, be, stand by · To what, where: serpent, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Adam), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tree | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tree | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 knowledge | case |
| 17 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 good | case |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 knowledge | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 evil | cc |
| 21 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 good | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 standing | punct |
| 23 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 27 standing | mark |
| 24 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 standing | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Eve | cc |
| 26 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Adam | conj |
| 27 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 appeared | advcl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 standing | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 serpent | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 serpent | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 serpent | det |
| 32 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 33 | near | near | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 serpent | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the prince | the serpent near palace | to a window result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result | |||
| 2 | see | past | the prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the tree | of knowledge of good | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand by | gerund | Adam and Eve | 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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