Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 29
In each of the two wings of the castle there was a staircase which led to a place below the entrance, from whence there is access to a low, vaulted cellar.
Who acts: staircase · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: each
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staircase), 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 | _ | 2 each | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 was | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wings | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wings | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 wings | nummod |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 each | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wings | nmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 staircase | det |
| 13 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 led | nsubj |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 staircase | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 19 | below | below | ADP | _ | 21 entrance | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 entrance | det |
| 21 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 place | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 whence | punct |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 whence | case |
| 24 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 led | advmod |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 is | expl |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 whence | cop |
| 27 | access | access | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 is | nsubj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 cellar | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cellar | det |
| 30 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cellar | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 low | punct |
| 32 | vaulted | vaulted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cellar | amod |
| 33 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 access | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a staircase | each; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in each=Location | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | a staircase | to a place below the entrance | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to place=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | whence property | tree rules |
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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