Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 29

One evening she was sitting in a corner of the dining-room, while her master read aloud.

Who acts: music, master · What happens: sit, read · To what, where: corner

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, master), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 corner	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 corner	det
8	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 room	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
11	dining	dining	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 room	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 dining	punct
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 corner	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 read	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 read	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 master	nmod:poss
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 read	nsubj
18	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	parataxis
19	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	18 read	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	music			a corner of the dining room	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
2	read	past	music's master					aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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