Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 10
Close by her side stood a little chimney-sweep, as black as coal, and also made of china.
What happens: stand, make · To what, where: little chimney sweep
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. 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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 side | nmod:poss |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sweep | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sweep | amod |
| 8 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sweep | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 chimney | punct |
| 10 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 black | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 black | case |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 coal | case |
| 15 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 black | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 made | advmod |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stood | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 china | case |
| 21 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a little chimney sweep | by few's side; close property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sweep=Theme by side=Destination | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | of china | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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