Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 73
The window flew open of itself, and an old woman looked in at the man.
Who acts: window, old woman · What happens: fly, look in
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 (window, old woman), 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 window | det |
| 2 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flew | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 itself | case |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 open | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 looked | compound:prt |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the window | open property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look in | past | a old woman | at the man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at man=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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