Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 107
On the throne sat an old magician with a crown on his ugly head, and a sceptre in his hand.
What happens: sit · To what, where: old magician, throne
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 throne | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 throne | det |
| 3 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 magician | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 magician | amod |
| 7 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 crown | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crown | det |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 head | amod |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sceptre | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sceptre | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sceptre | det |
| 18 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sceptre | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a old magician | the throne | with a crown; on traveller's ugly head | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent magician=Theme 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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