Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 138
George stood still for a few minutes, and then turned round and left the room.
Who acts: George · What happens: stand, turn round, leave · To what, where: room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 stood | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 minutes | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 minutes | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 minutes | amod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 turned | advmod |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 turned | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | George | still; minute | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn round | past | then | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
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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