Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 114
The stork sat in his nest on the roof of the farm-house.
Who acts: stork · What happens: sit · To what, where: nest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork), 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 stork | det |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 nest | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 nest | nmod:poss |
| 6 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 roof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roof | det |
| 9 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 12 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 farm | punct |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roof | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the stork | stork's nest | on the roof of the farm house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=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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