Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 49
Outside the church door stood an old beggar, leaning on his crutch.
What happens: stand, lean · To what, where: old beggar, church door, crutch
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. 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 | _ | 4 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | compound |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 beggar | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beggar | amod |
| 8 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaning | punct |
| 10 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 crutch | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 crutch | nmod:poss |
| 13 | crutch | crutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaning | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a old beggar | the church door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beggar=Theme outside door=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lean | gerund | John's crutch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on crutch=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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