Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 51
In a forsaken stone building, which stood just beyond the seas of snow, they one night took shelter.
Who acts: waters · What happens: forsake, stand, take · To what, where: forsaken stone building, shelter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters), 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 | _ | 5 building | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 building | det |
| 3 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 building | amod |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 building | compound |
| 5 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 seas | advmod |
| 10 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 12 seas | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 seas | det |
| 12 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stood | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 snow | case |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seas | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 night | nummod |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 20 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | stand | past | a forsaken stone building | beyond the seas of snow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in building=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | waters = water | shelter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme |
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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