Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 32
In the middle of the roof of the cellar there was a little narrow air-hole, but no window.
Who acts: little narrow air hole · What happens: be · To what, where: middle
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 (little narrow air hole), 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 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 roof | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roof | det |
| 6 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cellar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cellar | det |
| 9 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roof | 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 | 17 hole | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hole | amod |
| 14 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hole | amod |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hole | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 air | punct |
| 17 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 window | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 window | cc |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 window | det |
| 21 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hole | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a little narrow air hole no window | the middle of the roof of the cellar; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |
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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