Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 6
We are in the midst of Paris, in a great hotel.
Who acts: We · What happens: be · To what, where: midst
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 (We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:1497): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 midst | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 midst | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 midst | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 midst | det |
| 5 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Paris | case |
| 7 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 midst | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hotel | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hotel | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hotel | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hotel | amod |
| 12 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 midst | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 midst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | the midst and a great hotel | of Paris | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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