Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 34
She sat in my lap, and I brought her flowers, and feathers from the birds of the mountain.
Who acts: girl, I · What happens: sit, bring · To what, where: lap, flowers
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 (girl, I), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 lap | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lap | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feathers | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 feathers | cc |
| 14 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flowers | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 birds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 birds | det |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mountain | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mountain | det |
| 20 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 birds | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | girl | my lap | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | I | girl's flowers and feathers | from the birds of the mountain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flower=Theme from bird=Initial_Location |
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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