Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 88
On many an evening she sits at her window, and looks out over the chestnut-trees to the snow-capped mountains on which Rudy once roamed.
Who acts: Babette, Rudy · What happens: sit, look out, cap, roam · To what, where: window, chestnut trees, capped mountains
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, Rudy), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 evening | amod |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sits | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sits | nsubj |
| 6 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 window | nmod:poss |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sits | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looks | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looks | cc |
| 12 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sits | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 looks | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 trees | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trees | det |
| 16 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trees | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 chestnut | punct |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 looks | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 mountains | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mountains | det |
| 21 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 capped | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 snow | punct |
| 23 | capped | cap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 mountains | amod |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 looks | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 roamed | obl |
| 27 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 roamed | nsubj |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 29 roamed | advmod |
| 29 | roamed | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 mountains | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | Babette | Babette's window | evening | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | |||
| 2 | look out | present | Babette not said here | the chestnut trees | to the capped mountains; out property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | cap | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | roam | past | Rudy | the capped mountains | once property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory |
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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