Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 32
And there was one sitting as still as any little maiden, and wishing only for peace and quietness.
Who acts: little maiden · What happens: be, wish · To what, where: peace
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little maiden), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 maiden | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sitting | nummod |
| 5 | sitting | sitting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 still | advmod |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 maiden | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 maiden | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 maiden | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maiden | amod |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wishing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wishing | cc |
| 14 | wishing | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 maiden | acl |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 peace | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 peace | case |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wishing | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 quietness | cc |
| 19 | quietness | quietness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 peace | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | still | as any little maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | gerund | any little maiden not said here | peace and quietness | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot peace=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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