Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 70
As he stood thus and thought, something beat quite strongly against the window.
Who acts: Holger, something · What happens: stand, think, beat · To what, where: window · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holger, something), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thought | cc |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beat | punct |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 beat | nsubj |
| 9 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 strongly | advmod |
| 11 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 9 beat | advmod |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Holger | thus property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Holger not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | beat | present | something | the window | strongly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against window=Location |
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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