Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 170
Every one stood still to look at the beautiful sight, Rudy and Babette among them.
Who acts: one · What happens: stand, look
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stood | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sight | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sight | amod |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rudy | punct |
| 12 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Babette | cc |
| 14 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rudy | conj |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | every one | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | every one not said here | among brightness; at the beautiful sight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sight=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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