Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 65
In the centre of the floor stood a coffin filled with roses.
What happens: stand, fill · To what, where: coffin, centre
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 centre | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 centre | det |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 floor | det |
| 6 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 centre | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 coffin | det |
| 9 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 coffin | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 roses | case |
| 12 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 filled | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a coffin | the centre of the floor | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme in centre=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fill | participle | a coffin not said here | with roses | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with rose=Instrument |
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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