Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 23
Therein lives a poor paralysed girl; the window of her little room looks northward, the sun does not enter here.
Who acts: window, sun · What happens: live, paralyse, look, not enter · To what, where: poor paralysed girl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (window, sun), 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 | Therein | therein | ADV | _ | 2 lives | advmod |
| 2 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 5 | paralysed | paralyse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lives | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looks | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 room | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 room | amod |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 window | nmod |
| 14 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lives | parataxis |
| 15 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 14 looks | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 enter | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun | det |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 enter | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 enter | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 enter | advmod |
| 21 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 looks | conj |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 enter | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a poor paralysed girl | therein property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme girl=Location | ||||
| 2 | paralyse | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | look | present | the window of window's little room | northward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not enter | present · do-support | the sun | here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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