Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 41
Close by sat an old king with a golden crown on his white head.
What happens: sit · To what, where: old king, white head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. 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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 sat | mark |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 king | amod |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 crown | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crown | det |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crown | amod |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 head | amod |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a old king | king's white head | with a golden crown; close property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent king=Theme on head=Location |
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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