Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 26
The little maid, who was still watching the geese, nodded kindly to him as he passed through the gate.
Who acts: little maid, pedlar · What happens: watch, nod, pass · To what, where: geese, pedlar, gate
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little maid, pedlar), 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 | 3 maid | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maid | amod |
| 3 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nodded | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watching | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 watching | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 watching | aux |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 watching | advmod |
| 8 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 maid | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 geese | det |
| 10 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 watching | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 maid | punct |
| 12 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 12 nodded | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nodded | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 passed | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 passed | nsubj |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 nodded | advcl |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 gate | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gate | det |
| 21 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · progressive | the little maid | the geese | still | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme | |||
| 2 | nod | past | the little maid | pedlar | kindly property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | pass | past | pedlar | the gate | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gate=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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