Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 22
The daughter of the village blacksmith, who was young and fair, stood at the well, drawing water.
Who acts: village blacksmith, daughter · What happens: be, stand, draw · To what, where: well, water
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: who acts (village blacksmith, daughter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 daughter | det |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 blacksmith | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blacksmith | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blacksmith | compound |
| 6 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 daughter | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 young | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 young | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 young | cop |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blacksmith | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fair | cc |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 young | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 daughter | punct |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 well | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 well | det |
| 17 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drawing | punct |
| 19 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stood | advcl |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drawing | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the village blacksmith | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the village blacksmith not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stand | past | the daughter of the village blacksmith | the well | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at well=Location | ||||
| 4 | draw | gerund | the daughter of the village blacksmith not said here | water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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