Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 193
"That was Anna Dorothea's prayer in the wretched hut that was left standing for the sake of the stork.
Who acts: That, wretched hut · What happens: be, leave, stand · To what, where: prayer, wretched hut
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 (That, wretched hut), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 prayer | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 prayer | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prayer | cop |
| 4 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Dorothea | Dorothea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Anna | flat |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Anna | case |
| 7 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 10 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hut | amod |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prayer | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 left | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux:pass |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hut | acl:relcl |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 left | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sake | det |
| 18 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 standing | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 stork | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stork | det |
| 21 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sake | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prayer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | That | Anna's prayer | the wretched hut | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave in a quote | past · passive | the wretched hut | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | gerund | the wretched hut not said here | for the sake of the stork | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for sake=Attribute |
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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