Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 3
Behind each leaf of the rose he had a sleeping chamber.
Who acts: prettiest · What happens: have · To what, where: sleeping chamber, leaf
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prettiest), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 leaf | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 leaf | det |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rose | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rose | det |
| 6 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaf | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chamber | det |
| 10 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chamber | amod |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | prettiest = pretty | a sleeping chamber | each leaf of the rose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Patient |
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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