Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 70
Old Elsie stood in the room on the ground floor, and by her side stood Architect George.
Who acts: Old Elsie · What happens: stand · To what, where: room, Architect George
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 (Old Elsie), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Elsie | amod |
| 2 | Elsie | Elsie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 floor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 floor | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 floor | compound |
| 10 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 side | nmod:poss |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 17 | Architect | Architect | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 George | compound |
| 18 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Old Elsie | the room | on the ground floor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Old Elsie not said here | Architect George | by Elsie's side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent george=Theme by side=Destination |
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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