Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 23
In the midst of the city stood a splendid marble palace, roofed with pure red gold, in which dwelt the king.
What happens: stand, roof, dwell · To what, where: splendid marble palace, midst, king
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 9 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 palace | amod |
| 10 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 palace | compound |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 roofed | punct |
| 13 | roofed | roof | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 palace | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 15 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gold | amod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gold | amod |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roofed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dwelt | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 dwelt | nsubj |
| 21 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dwelt | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a splendid marble palace | the midst of the city | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Theme in midst=Destination | ||||
| 2 | roof | participle | a splendid marble palace not said here | with pure red gold | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dwell | past | the king | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=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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