Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 64
The major-general stood in his old place, and appeared lost in thought.
Who acts: major general · What happens: stand, lose · To what, where: old place, thought
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: who acts (major general), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 general | det |
| 2 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 general | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 major | punct |
| 4 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lost | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lost | cc |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux:pass |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stood | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 thought | case |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the major general | general's old place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | the major general not said here | thought | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in thought=Eventuality |
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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