Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 5
In the shed stood two Maidens of this kind.
What happens: stand · To what, where: two Maidens, shed
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. 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 shed | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shed | det |
| 3 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Maidens | nummod |
| 6 | Maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kind | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 kind | det |
| 9 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Maidens | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | two Maidens of this kind | the shed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme in shed=Destination |
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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