Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 21
The elder brother was not yet in bed; he was standing at the window looking out at the mist which rose from the meadows.
Who acts: elder brother, truth, mist · What happens: not be, stand, look out, rise · To what, where: bed, window, mist, meadows
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother, truth, mist), 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 brother | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bed | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 bed | advmod |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 bed | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 standing | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 standing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 standing | aux |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 bed | acl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 standing | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 looking | compound:prt |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 mist | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mist | det |
| 20 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 rose | nsubj |
| 22 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 mist | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 meadows | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 meadows | det |
| 25 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rose | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the elder brother | bed | yet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | truth | bed not said here | the window | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme at window=Destination | |||
| 3 | look out | gerund | truth not said here | the mist | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | rise | past | the mist | the meadows | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from meadow=Initial_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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