Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 99
She sat in the pew with the rest of the pastor's household, and when they had finished the hymn and looked up, they nodded and said, "It was right of you to come, Karen."
Who acts: room, girl, It · What happens: sit, finish, look up, nod, say, be · To what, where: pew, hymn · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (room, girl, It), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pew | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pew | det |
| 5 | pew | pew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 household | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pastor | det |
| 11 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 household | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 pastor | case |
| 13 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rest | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 finished | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 finished | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 finished | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 finished | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 finished | aux |
| 19 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 sat | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hymn | det |
| 21 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finished | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looked | cc |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 looked | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 nodded | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 nodded | nsubj |
| 27 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 nodded | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 right | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 right | punct |
| 32 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 right | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 right | cop |
| 34 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 said | ccomp |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 right | obl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 come | mark |
| 38 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 right | xcomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Karen | punct |
| 40 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 right | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 nodded | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | room | the pew | with the rest of the pastor's household | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pew=Location | |||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | girl | the hymn | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality hymn=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look up | past | room not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | nod | past | girl | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | It | of you; Karen obl; right property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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