Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 69

"In the window sat an old quill-pen, with which the maid generally wrote.

Who acts: maid · What happens: sit, write · To what, where: old quill pen, window

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 window	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 window	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pen	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pen	amod
8	quill	quill	NOUN	_	10 pen	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 quill	punct
10	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wrote	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 wrote	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maid	det
15	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wrote	nsubj
16	generally	generally	ADV	_	17 wrote	advmod
17	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past		a old quill pen		the window			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme in window=Location
2	write in a quote	past	the maid					generally property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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