Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 90
Your protege is here, Count!" she continued, turning to that nobleman, who stood close by. "
Who acts: protege, lady, nobleman · What happens: be, continue, turn, stand · To what, where: nobleman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (protege, lady, nobleman), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 protege | nmod:poss |
| 2 | protege | protege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Count | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Count | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 Count | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Count | punct |
| 6 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Count | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Count | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 continued | nsubj |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Count | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turning | punct |
| 12 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 continued | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 nobleman | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 nobleman | det |
| 15 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 nobleman | acl |
| 19 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 stood | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 close | fixed |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Count | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your protege | here | count property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | continue in a quote | past | lady | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | gerund | lady not said here | that nobleman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to nobleman=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | past | that nobleman | close property | 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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