Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 15
The same evening, upon going to bed, the pastor noticed his wife sitting there quiet and pensive.
Who acts: same evening, pastor, wife · What happens: go, notice, sit · To what, where: bed, wife
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same evening, pastor, wife), 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 evening | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 5 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 6 going | mark |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 evening | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pastor | det |
| 11 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | nsubj |
| 12 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | obj |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 noticed | xcomp |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 sitting | advmod |
| 17 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sitting | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pensive | cc |
| 19 | pensive | pensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 quiet | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | the same evening not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | the pastor | pastor's wife | evening | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sit | gerund | pastor's wife not said here | there | quiet property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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