Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 29

There sit the wood-pigeons," continued she, pointing to a number of laths and a cage which had been fixed into the walls, near one of the openings. "

What happens: sit, continue, point, fix · To what, where: wood pigeons, girl, number, cage · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 sit	expl
2	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pigeons	det
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pigeons	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 wood	punct
6	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sit	parataxis
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 continued	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pointing	punct
12	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sit	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 number	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 number	det
15	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pointing	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 laths	case
17	laths	lath	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 number	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cage	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cage	det
20	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 number	conj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fixed	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fixed	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 fixed	aux:pass
24	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 cage	acl:relcl
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 walls	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 walls	det
27	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fixed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 one	punct
29	near	near	ADP	_	30 one	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 fixed	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 openings	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 openings	det
33	openings	opening	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	infinitive	the wood pigeons		there		tree rules
2	continue in a quote	past	girl				vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	point in a quote	gerund		a number of laths and a cage			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to number=Recipient
4	fix in a quote	past · perfect · passive	a cage			into the walls	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient into wall=Co-Patient

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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