Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 175
The canon's gentle lady and her beautiful daughters sat in the bay-window, and looked over the hawthorn hedge of the garden towards the brown heath.
Who acts: gentle lady · What happens: sit, look · To what, where: bay window
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 (gentle lady), 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 canon | det |
| 2 | canon | Canon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lady | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 canon | case |
| 4 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 daughters | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 daughters | amod |
| 9 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lady | conj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 13 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 window | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 bay | punct |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 hedge | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hedge | det |
| 21 | hawthorn | hawthorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hedge | compound |
| 22 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 garden | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 garden | det |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hedge | nmod |
| 26 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 29 heath | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 heath | det |
| 28 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 heath | amod |
| 29 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the canon's gentle lady and canon's beautiful daughters | the bay window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in window=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the canon's gentle lady and canon's beautiful daughters not said here | towards the brown heath; over the hawthorn hedge of the garden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over hedge=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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