Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 39
In the long winter evenings the mistress and her maids sat at the spinning-wheel in the large hall; every Sunday the counsellor--this title the pedlar had obtained, although only in his old days--read aloud a portion from the Bible.
Who acts: mistress, title, old days · What happens: sit, obtain, read · To what, where: spinning wheel, pedlar, portion, Bible
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 (mistress, title, old days), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 evenings | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evenings | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 evenings | amod |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 evenings | compound |
| 5 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sat | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mistress | det |
| 7 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 maids | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 maids | nmod:poss |
| 10 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mistress | conj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 wheel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wheel | det |
| 14 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wheel | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 spinning | punct |
| 16 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hall | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hall | amod |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 counsellor | punct |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 Sunday | det |
| 23 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 counsellor | compound |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 counsellor | det |
| 25 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | conj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 title | punct |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 title | det |
| 28 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 counsellor | appos |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pedlar | det |
| 30 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 obtained | aux |
| 32 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 title | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 days | punct |
| 34 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 39 days | mark |
| 35 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 days | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 days | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 days | nmod:poss |
| 38 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 days | amod |
| 39 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 obtained | obl |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 read | punct |
| 41 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 days | acl |
| 42 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 41 read | advmod |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 portion | det |
| 44 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 read | obj |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 Bible | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Bible | det |
| 47 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 portion | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the mistress and tree's maids | the spinning wheel | evening | in the large hall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at wheel=Location | ||
| 2 | obtain | past · perfect · passive | this title not said here | the pedlar | day | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | read | participle | pedlar's old days not said here | a portion | the Bible | aloud property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent portion=Topic from bible=Source |
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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