Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 126
A few of the ladies were kneeling in silent prayer before the altars; others resorted to the confessionals.
Who acts: ladies, few · What happens: kneel, resort · To what, where: silent prayer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, few), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 few | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 resorted | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 kneeling | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ladies | det |
| 5 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kneeling | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kneeling | aux |
| 7 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 few | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 prayer | case |
| 9 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 prayer | amod |
| 10 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kneeling | obl |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 altars | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 altars | det |
| 13 | altars | altar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kneeling | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 resorted | punct |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 resorted | nsubj |
| 16 | resorted | resort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 confessionals | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 confessionals | det |
| 19 | confessionals | confessional | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 resorted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 resorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past · progressive | the ladies | silent prayer | before the altars | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in prayer=Location | |||
| 2 | resort | past | a few | to the confessionals result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to confessional=Result |
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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