Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 140
There was another kind of sweeping taking place at Waldemar Daa's, in the castle of Borreby.
Who acts: kind · What happens: be, sweep, take · To what, where: place, Waldemar Daa
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 sweeping | mark |
| 6 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kind | acl |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sweeping | xcomp |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Daa | case |
| 10 | Waldemar | Waldemar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Daa | compound |
| 11 | Daa | Daa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obl |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Daa | case |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 castle | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 castle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Borreby | case |
| 18 | Borreby | Borreby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 castle | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | another kind | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sweep | gerund | another kind not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | another kind not said here | place | Waldemar Daa | in the castle of Borreby | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in castle=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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