Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 12
In a corner, between two houses, one of which projected beyond the other, she sank down and huddled herself together.
Who acts: girl · What happens: project, sink down, huddle · To what, where: one, corner, girl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 corner | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 corner | det |
| 3 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 projected | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 corner | punct |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 houses | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 houses | nummod |
| 7 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 projected | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 projected | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 projected | nsubj |
| 12 | projected | project | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 15 other | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 projected | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sank | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sank | nsubj |
| 18 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 projected | parataxis |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 sank | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 huddled | cc |
| 21 | huddled | huddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sank | conj |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 huddled | obj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 huddled | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 projected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | project | past | one | a corner | between two houses; beyond the other | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location | |||
| 2 | sink down | past | girl | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | huddle | past | girl not said here | girl | together property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Theme |
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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