Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 104
The king and the queen sat on splendid thrones opposite to the judges and the whole council.
Who acts: king · What happens: sit · To what, where: splendid thrones
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: who acts (king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 queen | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 thrones | case |
| 8 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thrones | amod |
| 9 | thrones | throne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sat | obl |
| 10 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thrones | amod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 judges | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 judges | det |
| 13 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 opposite | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 council | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 council | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 council | amod |
| 17 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 judges | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the king and the queen | splendid thrones | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=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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