Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 13
Every night the sacred volume rested under his head, and he had known from his childhood what was written in it.
What happens: rest, know, write · To what, where: sacred volume, head, eye, childhood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 volume | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 volume | det |
| 4 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 volume | amod |
| 5 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 volume | acl |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rested | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 known | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 known | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 known | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 known | aux |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 volume | parataxis |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 childhood | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 17 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 known | obl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 written | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 written | aux:pass |
| 20 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 known | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 written | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 volume | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | participle | the sacred volume not said here | eye's head | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under head=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | past · perfect · passive | eye | eye's childhood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | write | past · passive | childhood | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in it=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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