Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 109
Yes--it was like magic,--she was here also: for, when the curtain rose, there stood Joanna, dressed in silk and gold, and with a golden crown upon her head.
Who acts: music, place, curtain · What happens: be, rise, stand, dress · To what, where: Joanna, silk
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, place, curtain), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 magic | discourse |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 magic | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 magic | cop |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 magic | case |
| 6 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 here | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 here | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 here | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 here | cop |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 magic | parataxis |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 here | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 rose | mark |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rose | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 rose | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 curtain | det |
| 18 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rose | nsubj |
| 19 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stood | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rose | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 stood | expl |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 magic | parataxis |
| 23 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dressed | punct |
| 25 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 stood | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 silk | case |
| 27 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dressed | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gold | cc |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 silk | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 crown | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 crown | cc |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 crown | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 crown | det |
| 34 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 crown | amod |
| 35 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dressed | obl |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 head | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 head | nmod:poss |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 crown | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 magic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | music | like magic | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | place | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | the curtain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | Joanna | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joanna=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | dress | participle | silk and gold | with a golden crown upon place's head | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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