Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 80
She stepped from the verandah through the empty hall into the next chamber, where slept strange warriors.
Who acts: dread · What happens: step, sleep · To what, where: verandah, strange warriors
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 (dread), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 verandah | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 verandah | det |
| 5 | verandah | verandah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 8 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hall | amod |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 chamber | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chamber | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chamber | amod |
| 13 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slept | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 slept | advmod |
| 16 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 warriors | amod |
| 18 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 slept | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | dread | the verandah | through the empty hall; into the next chamber | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Destination | |||
| 2 | sleep | participle | strange warriors | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=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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