Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 79
They were now on the stairs, and in a small closet at the top a lamp was burning.
Who acts: eyes, lamp · What happens: be, burn · To what, where: stairs, top
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 (eyes, lamp), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stairs | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stairs | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stairs | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 stairs | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stairs | det |
| 6 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 closet | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 closet | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 closet | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 closet | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 closet | amod |
| 12 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stairs | appos |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 top | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 top | det |
| 15 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 closet | nmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lamp | det |
| 17 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burning | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 burning | aux |
| 19 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 top | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stairs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | eyes = eye | the stairs | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | burn | past · progressive | a lamp | the top not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent top=Theme |
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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