Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 65
Presently she passed the laborer's hut; his wife stood at the door, and the two women spoke to each other.
Who acts: raven, wife, two women · What happens: pass, stand, speak · To what, where: hut, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, wife, two women), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 laborer | det |
| 5 | laborer | laborer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hut | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 laborer | case |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spoke | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spoke | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 women | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 women | nummod |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spoke | nsubj |
| 20 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stood | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 each | case |
| 22 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 20 spoke | obl |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 each | fixed |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | raven | the laborer's hut | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stand | past | bird's wife | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the two women | to each | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-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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