Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 16
Even the poorest beggar ventured up the steps into the sanctuary.
Who acts: poorest beggar · What happens: venture up · To what, where: steps, sanctuary
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poorest beggar), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 ventured | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beggar | det |
| 3 | poorest | poor | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 beggar | amod |
| 4 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ventured | nsubj |
| 5 | ventured | venture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 ventured | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steps | det |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ventured | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sanctuary | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sanctuary | det |
| 11 | sanctuary | sanctuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ventured | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ventured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture up | participle | the poorest beggar | the steps | the sanctuary | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent step=Topic |
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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