Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 6
There was great company at the manor-house--some very noble people from the capital; young pretty girls, and among them a young lady who came from a long distance.
Who acts: great company, young lady · What happens: be, come · To what, where: manor house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great company, young lady), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 company | amod |
| 4 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 7 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 manor | punct |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 people | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 noble | advmod |
| 13 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 house | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 capital | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 capital | det |
| 17 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 girls | punct |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girls | amod |
| 20 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girls | amod |
| 21 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lady | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lady | cc |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lady | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 lady | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lady | amod |
| 28 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 girls | nmod |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 came | nsubj |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lady | acl:relcl |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 distance | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 distance | det |
| 33 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 distance | amod |
| 34 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 came | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | great company | the manor house some noble people from the capital; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a young lady | from a long distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from distance=Initial_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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