Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 146
A window stood open; he flew in, and perched upon the table.
Who acts: window · What happens: stand, fly in, perch · To what, where: table
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 (window), 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 | 2 window | det |
| 2 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 flew | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 perched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 perched | cc |
| 11 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 flew | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 table | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 table | det |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perched | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a window | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fly in | past | window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | perch | participle | window not said here | the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon table=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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