Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 36
A few miserable-looking wooden booths, for the accommodation of Dutch watermen, stood on the opposite shore.
Who acts: few looking wooden booths · What happens: look, stand, accommodate · To what, where: opposite shore, Dutch watermen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few looking wooden booths), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 booths | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 booths | amod |
| 3 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looking | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 miserable | punct |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 booths | amod |
| 6 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 booths | amod |
| 7 | booths | booth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 accommodation | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 accommodation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 accommodation | det |
| 11 | accommodation | accommodation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 booths | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 watermen | case |
| 13 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 watermen | amod |
| 14 | watermen | waterman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 accommodation | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 booths | punct |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 shore | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shore | det |
| 19 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shore | amod |
| 20 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | stand | past | a few looking wooden booths | the opposite shore | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location | ||||
| 3 | accommodate | Dutch watermen | nom accommodation «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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