Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 30
In this dungeon Long Martha had been imprisoned, and from here she was led away to the scaffold.
What happens: imprison, lead away · To what, where: Long, staircase
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: 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 | _ | 3 dungeon | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 dungeon | det |
| 3 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Long | obl |
| 4 | Long | Long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 imprisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | Martha | Martha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Long | flat |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 imprisoned | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 8 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 led | cc |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 here | case |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 led | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 led | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 led | aux:pass |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 imprisoned | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 led | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 scaffold | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 scaffold | det |
| 19 | scaffold | scaffold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 imprisoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imprison | past · perfect · passive | Long | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead away | past · passive | staircase | to the scaffold; away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from here=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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