Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 19
The coach stopped in the courtyard of a robber's castle, the walls of which were cracked from top to bottom.
Who acts: coach · What happens: stop, crack · To what, where: courtyard, top
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coach), 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 | 2 coach | det |
| 2 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 courtyard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 courtyard | det |
| 6 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 robber | det |
| 9 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 castle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 robber | case |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 courtyard | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walls | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 walls | det |
| 14 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 castle | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 cracked | obl |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cracked | aux:pass |
| 18 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 walls | acl:relcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cracked | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 bottom | case |
| 22 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the coach | the courtyard of a robber's castle and the walls | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Location | ||||
| 2 | crack | past · passive | top to bottom | of the walls | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V» |
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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