Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 158
She looked at the stone in the walls which had once formed part of the castle of Marck Stig, and perhaps she thought of his daughters and of the old song,--
Who acts: fortune · What happens: look, form, think · To what, where: walls
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 (fortune), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 stone | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 walls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walls | det |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 formed | aux |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 formed | advmod |
| 12 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 walls | acl:relcl |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 formed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 castle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 part | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Marck | case |
| 18 | Marck | Marck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 castle | nmod |
| 19 | Stig | Stig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Marck | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 thought | cc |
| 22 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 24 thought | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 daughters | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 thought | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 song | cc |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 song | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 song | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 song | amod |
| 32 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 daughters | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 daughters | punct |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | fortune | in the walls; at the stone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | past · perfect · passive | the walls | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | fortune | of castle's daughters and the old song; perhaps property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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