Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 98
The church itself had come to the poor girl in her narrow room, or the room had gone to the church.
Who acts: church, room · What happens: come, go · To what, where: church
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 (church, room), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 church | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 church | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 room | nmod:poss |
| 12 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 room | amod |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gone | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 gone | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | aux |
| 19 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 come | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 church | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 church | det |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gone | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the church church | to the poor girl in branch's narrow room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to girl=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | the room | the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_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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