Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 12
All the servants stood below in the courtyard, and looked on while they mounted their horses; and just by chance the third son came up.
Who acts: servants, chance · What happens: stand, look on, mount, come up · To what, where: courtyard, horses
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, chance), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 servants | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servants | det |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | below | below | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 courtyard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 courtyard | det |
| 8 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 looked | compound:prt |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 mounted | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mounted | nsubj |
| 15 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horses | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mounted | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 came | cc |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 chance | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 chance | case |
| 22 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 son | det |
| 24 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 son | amod |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 27 | up | up | ADV | _ | 26 came | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | all servants | the courtyard | below property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Location | |||
| 2 | look on | past | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | mount | past | servants = servant | servants's horses | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come up | past | chance | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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