Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 210
Before the stone cross fastened to the wall?
What happens: fasten · To what, where: stone cross
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 4 cross | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cross | det |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cross | compound |
| 4 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cross | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fastened | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cross | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | participle | the stone cross not said here | to the wall | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to wall=Co-Patient |
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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