Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 26
While the lights in the windows of the miller's house still twinkled through the green foliage, out through the open skylight came the parlor-cat on to the roof, and along the water-pipe walked the kitchen-cat to meet her.
Who acts: water pipe · What happens: twinkle, come on, walk, meet · To what, where: green foliage, parlor cat, open skylight, kitchen cat, cat
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water pipe), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 lights | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lights | det |
| 3 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 twinkled | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 windows | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 windows | det |
| 6 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lights | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 miller | det |
| 9 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 miller | case |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 windows | nmod |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 twinkled | advmod |
| 13 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 foliage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 foliage | det |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 foliage | amod |
| 17 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twinkled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 skylight | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 skylight | det |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 skylight | amod |
| 23 | skylight | skylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 twinkled | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cat | det |
| 26 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cat | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 parlor | punct |
| 28 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 came | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 roof | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 roof | det |
| 32 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 walked | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 walked | cc |
| 35 | along | along | ADP | _ | 39 pipe | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pipe | det |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pipe | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 water | punct |
| 39 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 walked | nsubj |
| 40 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 twinkled | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 cat | det |
| 42 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 cat | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 kitchen | punct |
| 44 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 walked | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 meet | mark |
| 46 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 walked | advcl |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 meet | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 twinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twinkle | past | the green foliage | still | while the lights in the windows of the miller's house | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through foliage=Location | |||
| 2 | come on | past | the parlor cat | the open skylight | to the roof; out property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | walk | past | the water pipe | the kitchen cat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | the water pipe not said here | cat | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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