Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 150
Anastasia held the lamp as we entered; my mother was not there.
Who acts: Anastasia, we, mother · What happens: hold, enter, not be · To what, where: lamp
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anastasia, we, mother), 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 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lamp | det |
| 4 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 entered | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 there | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 there | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 there | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 held | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Anastasia | the lamp | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | we | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | my mother | there property | tree rules |
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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