Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 1
In a nursery where a number of toys lay scattered about, a money-box stood on the top of a very high wardrobe.
Who acts: money box · What happens: scatter, stand · To what, where: number, nursery, top
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money box), 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 | _ | 3 nursery | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nursery | det |
| 3 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scattered | obl |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 scattered | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 toys | case |
| 8 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nmod |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 scattered | aux:pass |
| 10 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 scattered | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 box | det |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 box | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 money | punct |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 scattered | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wardrobe | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wardrobe | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 high | advmod |
| 24 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wardrobe | amod |
| 25 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past · passive | a number of toys | a nursery | about property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in nursery=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | past | a money box | the top of a high wardrobe | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=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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