Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 17
Suddenly he observed in the doorway of a hut newly built under the rock, a young maiden.
Who acts: rain · What happens: observe, build · To what, where: doorway, hut, rock
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 observed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 observed | nsubj |
| 3 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 doorway | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 doorway | det |
| 6 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 observed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hut | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hut | det |
| 9 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doorway | nmod |
| 10 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 11 built | advmod |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hut | acl |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rock | det |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 built | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 maiden | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 maiden | amod |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rock | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | rain | the doorway of a hut | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | build | participle | a hut not said here | the rock and a young maiden | newly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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