Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 102
However, she allowed them for one day to place the bird in an empty cage that hung near the window. "
Who acts: lady, empty cage · What happens: allow, hang · To what, where: birds, window
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, empty cage), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 allowed | nsubj |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 allowed | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 place | mark |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | appos |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cage | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cage | det |
| 15 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cage | amod |
| 16 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bird | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hung | nsubj |
| 18 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cage | acl:relcl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 window | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 window | det |
| 21 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hung | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | lady | birds = bird | day | however property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | hang | past | a empty cage | the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near window=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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