Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 180
He followed the child to the wretched house, and ascended the narrow, crazy staircase which led to a little garret in the roof.
Who acts: Ib, narrow crazy staircase · What happens: follow, ascend, lead · To what, where: child, wretched house, narrow crazy staircase
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib, narrow crazy staircase), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ascended | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ascended | cc |
| 11 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 staircase | det |
| 13 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 staircase | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 narrow | punct |
| 15 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 staircase | amod |
| 16 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ascended | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 led | nsubj |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 staircase | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 garret | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 garret | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 garret | amod |
| 22 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 roof | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 roof | det |
| 25 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 garret | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Ib | the child | the wretched house | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme to house=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | ascend | past | Ib not said here | the narrow crazy staircase | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme staircase=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the narrow crazy staircase | to a little garret in the roof | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to garret=Patient |
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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