Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 127
Up in a little room with a bow window, stands a little dancing girl, half undressed; she stands sometimes on one leg, and sometimes on both, and looks as if she would tread the whole world under her feet.
Who acts: little dancing girl, grandmother · What happens: stand, undress, look, tread · To what, where: both, one leg, whole world, feet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little dancing girl, grandmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 11 stands | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 room | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 room | amod |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Up | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 8 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 window | compound |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Up | punct |
| 11 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 14 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 girl | compound |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stands | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 undressed | punct |
| 17 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 undressed | advmod |
| 18 | undressed | undress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 girl | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 stands | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stands | nsubj |
| 21 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stands | conj |
| 22 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 stands | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 leg | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 leg | nummod |
| 25 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stands | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 both | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 both | cc |
| 28 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 both | advmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 both | case |
| 30 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 stands | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 looks | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 looks | cc |
| 33 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stands | parataxis |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 tread | mark |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 tread | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 tread | nsubj |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 tread | aux |
| 38 | tread | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 looks | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 world | det |
| 40 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 world | amod |
| 41 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tread | obj |
| 42 | under | under | ADP | _ | 44 feet | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 feet | nmod:poss |
| 44 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 tread | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a little dancing girl | both | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on both=Location | ||||
| 2 | undress | participle | a little dancing girl not said here | half property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand | present | grandmother | one leg | sometimes property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | |||
| 4 | look | present | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | tread | would | grandmother | the whole world | grandmother's feet | 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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