Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 65
Then she took them into the room where a number of toys lay on a pretty little table, and the whole of the table drawer besides was full of beautiful things.
Who acts: Ida, number, whole · What happens: take, lay, be · To what, where: flowers, room, pretty little table
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ida, number, whole), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 lay | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 toys | case |
| 12 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 room | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 16 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 table | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 table | amod |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 full | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 full | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 whole | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 full | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 besides | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 besides | det |
| 25 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drawer | compound |
| 26 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 besides | compound |
| 27 | besides | beside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 whole | obl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 full | cop |
| 29 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 things | case |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 things | amod |
| 32 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 full | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ida | flowers = flower | the room | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into room=Destination | ||
| 2 | lay | present | a number of toys | a pretty little table | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on table=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the whole | of beautiful things; full property | tree rules |
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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