Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 32
During that time the flower has stood in the window, withered and forgotten, till at length cast out among the sweepings into the street, on the day of the lodgers' removal.
Who acts: flower, lodgers · What happens: stand, wither, forget, cast out, remove · To what, where: window, length, street
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower, lodgers), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flower | det |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | aux |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 withered | punct |
| 12 | withered | wither | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forgotten | cc |
| 14 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 withered | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 length | punct |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 length | case |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 length | case |
| 18 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forgotten | obl |
| 19 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 length | acl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 cast | compound:prt |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 sweepings | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sweepings | det |
| 23 | sweepings | sweeping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cast | obl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 street | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 street | det |
| 26 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cast | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 day | punct |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forgotten | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 removal | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 lodgers | det |
| 33 | lodgers | lodger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 removal | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 33 lodgers | case |
| 35 | removal | removal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 day | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present · perfect | the flower | the window | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in window=Location | |||
| 2 | wither | past | the flower not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | forget | participle | the flower not said here | till length; day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cast out | participle | length not said here | the street | among the sweepings | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into street=Product | |||
| 5 | remove | the lodgers | nom removal «act transitive»: poss=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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