Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 52
On the back seat a little smart groom balanced himself.
Who acts: little smart groom · What happens: balance · To what, where: groom, back seat
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little smart groom), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 seat | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seat | det |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seat | compound |
| 4 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 balanced | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 groom | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 groom | amod |
| 7 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 groom | amod |
| 8 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 balanced | nsubj |
| 9 | balanced | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 balanced | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 balanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | balance | past | a little smart groom | groom | the back seat | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on seat=Location |
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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