Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 7
But inside the church the pastor stood in the pulpit, and spoke very loudly and angrily.
Who acts: pastor · What happens: stand, speak · To what, where: church · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pastor), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 stood | cc |
| 2 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 4 church | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 church | det |
| 4 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pastor | det |
| 6 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pulpit | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pulpit | det |
| 10 | pulpit | pulpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spoke | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spoke | cc |
| 13 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 loudly | advmod |
| 15 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 13 spoke | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 angrily | cc |
| 17 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 15 loudly | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the pastor | the church | in the pulpit | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside church=Location | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the pastor not said here | loudly property | vn talk-37.5 «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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