Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 252
Presently he stood up and found himself in the depths of the forest, close to the cavern of the Winds, and the mother of the Winds sat by his side.
Who acts: prince, mother · What happens: stand up, find, sit · To what, where: prince, depths
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, mother), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stood | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 depths | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 depths | det |
| 10 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 depths | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 close | punct |
| 15 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 forest | amod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 cavern | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cavern | det |
| 18 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 close | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Winds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Winds | det |
| 21 | Winds | Wind | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 cavern | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sat | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sat | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mother | det |
| 25 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sat | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Winds | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Winds | det |
| 28 | Winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 mother | nmod |
| 29 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 side | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 side | nmod:poss |
| 32 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sat | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | prince | presently property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | prince not said here | prince | the depths of the forest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | sit | past | the mother of the Winds | by prince's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
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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