Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 70
The servant girl, who was sweeping out the room, picked it up, and laid it in one of the books which were upon the table, in the belief that it must have fallen out while the room was being arranged.
Who acts: servant girl, books, room · What happens: sweep out, pick up, lay, be, fall out, arrange · To what, where: room, belief
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant girl, books, room), 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 | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | compound |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sweeping | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sweeping | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sweeping | aux |
| 7 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 girl | acl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sweeping | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sweeping | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 girl | punct |
| 12 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 picked | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 picked | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laid | cc |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 picked | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 laid | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 laid | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 books | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 books | det |
| 23 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 table | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 table | cop |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 table | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 table | det |
| 28 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 books | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 belief | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 belief | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 belief | det |
| 32 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 fallen | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fallen | nsubj |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 fallen | aux |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 fallen | aux |
| 37 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 belief | acl |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 fallen | compound:prt |
| 39 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 44 arranged | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 room | det |
| 41 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 arranged | aux:pass |
| 43 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 arranged | aux:pass |
| 44 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 fallen | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep out | past · progressive | the servant girl | the room | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | pick up | past | the servant girl | room | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | the servant girl not said here | room | the belief | in one of the books | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in one=Destination | ||
| 4 | is | past | the books | upon the table | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fall out | must · perfect | room | the belief not said here | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient belief=Result | ||||
| 6 | arrange | past · passive | the room | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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