Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 8
The mountain-dweller saw them through the panes of his little window.
Who acts: mountain dweller · What happens: see · To what, where: forms, panes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain dweller), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dweller | det |
| 2 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dweller | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 mountain | punct |
| 4 | dweller | dweller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 panes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 panes | det |
| 9 | panes | pane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 window | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 window | amod |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 panes | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the mountain dweller | forms = form | the panes of dweller's little window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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