Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 115
The wedding festivities lasted a whole week, and the dogs sat at the table, and stared with all their eyes.
Who acts: wedding festivities, dogs · What happens: last, sit, stare · To what, where: table
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 (wedding festivities, dogs), 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 | 3 festivities | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 festivities | compound |
| 3 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lasted | nsubj |
| 4 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 week | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 week | amod |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dogs | det |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lasted | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 table | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 table | det |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stared | cc |
| 18 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lasted | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 eyes | det:predet |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stared | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | the wedding festivities | week | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the dogs | the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | ||||
| 3 | stare | past | the wedding festivities not said here | with festivities's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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