Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 6
In the deepest spot of all, stands the castle of the Sea King.
What happens: stand · To what, where: castle, deepest spot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 spot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spot | det |
| 3 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 spot | amod |
| 4 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stands | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 spot | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spot | punct |
| 8 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stands | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 13 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | compound |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 castle | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the castle of the Sea King | the deepest spot of all | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in spot=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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