Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 4
Look! at the window there leans an old maid.
Who acts: you · What happens: look, lean · To what, where: old maid, window
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 window | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leans | obl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 leans | advmod |
| 7 | leans | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 maid | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maid | amod |
| 10 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leans | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lean | present | a old maid | the window; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maid=Theme at window=Destination |
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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