Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 41
I had heard this in the library, and here was just such a tree, and in it an oak-maiden.
Who acts: I · What happens: hear, be · To what, where: this, library, tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 library | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 library | det |
| 7 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tree | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tree | cc |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 tree | advmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tree | cop |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 tree | advmod |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 tree | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 maiden | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 maiden | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 maiden | obl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 maiden | det |
| 21 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 maiden | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 oak | punct |
| 23 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | I | this | the library | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | such tree and a oak maiden | here | tree rules |
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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