Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 87
From the wooden balconies of the houses the young lacemakers nodded as he passed.
Who acts: young lacemakers, Kjoge · What happens: nod, pass · To what, where: wooden balconies
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 (young lacemakers, Kjoge), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 balconies | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 balconies | det |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 balconies | amod |
| 4 | balconies | balcony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nodded | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 houses | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 houses | det |
| 7 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 balconies | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lacemakers | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lacemakers | amod |
| 10 | lacemakers | lacemaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nodded | nsubj |
| 11 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 passed | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 passed | nsubj |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nodded | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the young lacemakers | the wooden balconies of the houses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | Kjoge | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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