Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 29
Around the coffin stood the husband and children, a whole troop, the youngest in the father's arms.
What happens: stand · To what, where: husband, coffin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 coffin | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coffin | det |
| 3 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 husband | det |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 children | cc |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 husband | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 troop | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 troop | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 troop | amod |
| 12 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 husband | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 youngest | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youngest | det |
| 15 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 stood | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 arms | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 father | det |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 father | case |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 youngest | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the husband and children and a whole troop | the coffin | the youngest in the father's arms obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent husband=Theme around coffin=Destination |
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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