Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 5
Below, at the foot of the wall, stands a gloomy looking building enclosed in palisades.
What happens: stand, look, enclose · To what, where: looking building, foot, palisades
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. 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 | Below | below | ADV | _ | 10 stands | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Below | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 foot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 foot | det |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stands | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 foot | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 foot | punct |
| 10 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 building | det |
| 12 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looking | compound |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 building | amod |
| 14 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stands | obj |
| 15 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 building | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 palisades | case |
| 17 | palisades | palisade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 enclosed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a looking building | the foot of the wall | below property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent building=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | enclose | participle | a looking building not said here | palisades | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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