Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 103
Outside the town a large gibbet had been erected, round which stood the soldiers and several thousands of people.
What happens: erect, stand · To what, where: large gibbet, soldiers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. 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 | Outside | outside | ADP | _ | 3 town | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 town | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 erected | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gibbet | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gibbet | amod |
| 6 | gibbet | gibbet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 erected | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 erected | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 erected | aux:pass |
| 9 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 stood | advmod |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 erected | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soldiers | det |
| 15 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thousands | cc |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thousands | amod |
| 18 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 soldiers | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thousands | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 erected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erect | past · perfect · passive | a large gibbet | outside the town | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the soldiers and several thousands of people | round property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus |
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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