Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 16
Late in the night, while the gentle sleep of peace rested on the now happy house, there was still one watcher.
Who acts: one watcher, peace · What happens: rest, be, sleep · To what, where: gentle sleep, happy house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one watcher, peace), 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 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 night | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 was | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sleep | punct |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sleep | det |
| 8 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sleep | amod |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 night | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 peace | case |
| 11 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleep | nmod |
| 12 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sleep | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 happy | advmod |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rested | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 watcher | advmod |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 watcher | nummod |
| 23 | watcher | watcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 was | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | participle | the gentle sleep of peace not said here | the happy house | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on house=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | one watcher | there | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | sleep | peace | nom sleep «state intransitive»: of=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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