Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 75
She went with her maid to the old castle where she had been born, and near which the gentle, pious lady, her mother, was lying in the church vault.
Who acts: two · What happens: go, bear, lie · To what, where: gentle pious lady, old castle, two, church vault
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 maid | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 maid | nmod:poss |
| 5 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 castle | amod |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 born | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 born | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 born | aux:pass |
| 14 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 castle | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lady | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lady | cc |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lady | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lady | det |
| 20 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lady | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gentle | punct |
| 22 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lady | amod |
| 23 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mother | punct |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lady | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lying | punct |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 lying | aux |
| 29 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 vault | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 vault | det |
| 32 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 vault | compound |
| 33 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lying | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | two | the gentle pious lady and two's mother | the old castle | with two's maid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | bear | past · perfect · passive | two | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lie | past · progressive | two not said here | the church vault | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in vault=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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