Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 20
He was of such a lowly station that he had not been allowed even to enter the room.
Who acts: boy, lowly station · What happens: be, not allow, enter · To what, where: boy, room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, lowly station), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 station | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 station | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 station | case |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 station | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 station | det |
| 6 | lowly | lowly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 station | amod |
| 7 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 allowed | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 allowed | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 allowed | advmod |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 allowed | aux:pass |
| 13 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 station | acl:relcl |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 enter | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 enter | mark |
| 16 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 allowed | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enter | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 station | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy | of such lowly station | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not allow | past · perfect · passive | such lowly station not said here | boy | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
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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