Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 22
The Viking's wife sat upon a raised cross seat in the open hall.
Who acts: wife · What happens: sit, raise · To what, where: raised cross seat
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Viking | det |
| 2 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Viking | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 seat | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 seat | det |
| 8 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 seat | amod |
| 9 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seat | amod |
| 10 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hall | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hall | det |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hall | amod |
| 14 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seat | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Viking's wife | a raised cross seat in the open hall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon seat=Location | ||||
| 2 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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