Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 73
And the crow led little Gerda to the back door, which stood ajar.
Who acts: crow, back door · What happens: lead, stand · To what, where: little Gerda, back door
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, back door), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 led | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Gerda | amod |
| 6 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 door | compound |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 door | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ajar | ajar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stood | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the crow | little Gerda | the back door | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme to door=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the back door | ajar property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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