Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 30
In a peasant woman's humble room stood Frederick the Sixth, writing his name with chalk on the beam.
Who acts: Frederick · What happens: stand, write, name · To what, where: Frederick, humble room, name, beam
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: who acts (Frederick), 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 | _ | 7 room | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 woman | case |
| 6 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sixth | det |
| 11 | Sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 writing | punct |
| 13 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stood | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 writing | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 chalk | case |
| 17 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 writing | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 beam | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beam | det |
| 20 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 writing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Frederick | a peasant woman's humble room | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent frederick=Theme sixth=Destination | ||||
| 2 | write | gerund | Frederick's name | the beam | with chalk | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on beam=Destination | |||
| 3 | name | Frederick | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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