Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 1
In Denmark there stands an old castle named Kronenburg, close by the Sound of Elsinore, where large ships, both English, Russian, and Prussian, pass by hundreds every day.
What happens: stand, name, pass · To what, where: old castle, Denmark
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Denmark | case |
| 2 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 stands | expl |
| 4 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 castle | amod |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obj |
| 8 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 castle | acl |
| 9 | Kronenburg | Kronenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 named | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 close | punct |
| 11 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 castle | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Sound | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sound | det |
| 14 | Sound | Sound | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Elsinore | case |
| 16 | Elsinore | Elsinore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sound | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ships | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 large | advmod |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ships | amod |
| 20 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Sound | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 English | punct |
| 22 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 English | nsubj |
| 23 | English | English | ADJ | _ | 14 Sound | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Russian | punct |
| 25 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 English | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pass | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pass | cc |
| 28 | Prussian | prussian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pass | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Prussian | punct |
| 30 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stands | advcl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 hundreds | case |
| 32 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 pass | obl |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 day | det |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pass | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a old castle | Denmark; there | by the Sound of Elsinore and large ships | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in denmark=Destination | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a old castle not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pass | infinitive | day | by hundreds | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by hundred=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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