Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 43
And this evening, for the last time, Rudy and Babette sat in the miller's house as an engaged couple.
Who acts: evening · What happens: sit, engage · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At 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 (evening), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sat | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Rudy | punct |
| 10 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 time | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Babette | cc |
| 12 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rudy | conj |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 miller | det |
| 16 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 miller | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 couple | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 couple | det |
| 21 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 couple | amod |
| 22 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | this evening and the last time | the miller's house | as a engaged couple | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | |||
| 2 | engage | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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