Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 8
It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate.
Who acts: knocking, princess · What happens: be, stand out · To what, where: princess, front
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knocking, princess), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 princess | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 princess | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 princess | acl |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 standing | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 front | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | knocking | a princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand out | gerund | a princess not said here | front of the gate; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=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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