Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 30
And again the boy stood by the window, gazing out, whilst his younger brother lay in bed.
Who acts: boy, younger brother · What happens: stand, gaze out, lie · To what, where: bed
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 (boy, younger brother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gazing | punct |
| 10 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 gazing | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 13 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 17 lay | mark |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 brother | amod |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the boy | again | by the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | |||
| 2 | gaze out | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lie | past | genius's younger brother | bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=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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