Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 29
He stopped before the great open portal, and beheld a garden surrounded by cloistered walks.
Who acts: Fornarina · What happens: stop, behold, surround, cloister · To what, where: garden
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: who acts (Fornarina), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 portal | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 portal | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 portal | amod |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 portal | amod |
| 7 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beheld | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beheld | cc |
| 10 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beheld | obj |
| 13 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 garden | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 walks | case |
| 15 | cloistered | cloister | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 walks | amod |
| 16 | walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Fornarina | before the great open portal | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | Fornarina not said here | a garden | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | a garden not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cloister | participle | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: 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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