Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 93
And then the others went to hear God's Word, but she went alone into her little room; this was only large enough to hold the bed and a chair.
Who acts: others, Karen, this · What happens: go, hear, be, hold · To what, where: Word, little room, bed
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, Karen, this), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 others | det |
| 4 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Word | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 God | case |
| 10 | Word | Word | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hear | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 room | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 room | amod |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 large | punct |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 large | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 large | cop |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 large | advmod |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | conj |
| 25 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 large | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 hold | mark |
| 27 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 large | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bed | det |
| 29 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hold | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 chair | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 chair | det |
| 32 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bed | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the others | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the others not said here | God's Word | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Karen | Karen's little room | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | this | enough, large property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hold | to-infinitive | this not said here | the bed and a chair | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme |
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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