Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 6
But the most beautiful sight of all is the old castle of Kronenburg, where Holger Danske sits in the deep, dark cellar, into which no one goes.
Who acts: beautiful sight, Holger, one · What happens: be, sit, go · To what, where: old castle, deep dark cellar
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 (beautiful sight, Holger, one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 castle | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sight | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sight | amod |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 castle | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sight | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 castle | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 castle | amod |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Kronenburg | case |
| 13 | Kronenburg | Kronenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 castle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sits | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 sits | advmod |
| 16 | Holger | Holger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sits | nsubj |
| 17 | Danske | Danske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Holger | flat |
| 18 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Kronenburg | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 cellar | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cellar | det |
| 21 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cellar | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 deep | punct |
| 23 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cellar | amod |
| 24 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sits | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 goes | punct |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 goes | obl |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 goes | nsubj |
| 30 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sits | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 castle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the beautiful sight of all | the old castle | of Kronenburg | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | present | Holger | the deep dark cellar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cellar=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | present | no one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into which=Initial_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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