Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 8
Then they drove to the castle, in which were lofty halls and splendid drawing-rooms.
Who acts: branches, castle · What happens: drive, be · To what, where: castle, lofty halls
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches, castle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drove | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drove | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 halls | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 halls | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 halls | cop |
| 11 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 halls | amod |
| 12 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 castle | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rooms | cc |
| 14 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rooms | amod |
| 15 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rooms | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 drawing | punct |
| 17 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 halls | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | branches = branch | the castle and lofty halls and splendid drawing rooms | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the castle and lofty halls and splendid drawing rooms | lofty halls and splendid drawing rooms | tree rules |
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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