Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 44
They were sitting behind the cabin door, eating from a delft plate, which they had placed between them.
Who acts: terms · What happens: sit, eat, place · To what, where: cabin door, delft plate
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 (terms), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sitting | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sitting | aux |
| 3 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 6 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | compound |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sitting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eating | punct |
| 9 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sitting | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 plate | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 plate | det |
| 12 | delft | delft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plate | compound |
| 13 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eating | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 placed | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 placed | aux |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 plate | acl:relcl |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 placed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | terms = term | the cabin door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | terms = term not said here | a delft plate | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from plate=Source | ||||
| 3 | place | past · perfect · passive | a delft plate | between terms = term | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between they=Destination |
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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