Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 30
It grew dark, and as night was coming on I found a lodging in an old tower, where dwelt a watchman and an owl.
Who acts: object, night, I · What happens: grow, come, find, dwell · To what, where: lodging, old tower, watchman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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 (object, night, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grew | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coming | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 coming | cc |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 coming | mark |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 coming | aux |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 grew | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 found | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 coming | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lodging | det |
| 14 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tower | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tower | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tower | amod |
| 18 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dwelt | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 dwelt | advmod |
| 21 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 tower | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 watchman | det |
| 23 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dwelt | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 owl | cc |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 owl | det |
| 26 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 watchman | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | object | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | I | a lodging | a old tower | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=Topic | |||
| 4 | dwell | participle | a watchman and a owl | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme watchman=Location |
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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