Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 5
There he stood upon the cupboard, high and lofty, looking down upon everything else in the room.
Who acts: two · What happens: stand, look down · To what, where: cupboard
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 (two), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 cupboard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cupboard | det |
| 6 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 high | punct |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cupboard | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lofty | cc |
| 10 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 high | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 looking | advmod |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 everything | case |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 looking | obl |
| 16 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 everything | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 everything | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | two | the cupboard; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon cupboard=Location | ||||
| 2 | look down | gerund | two not said here | upon everything; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon everything=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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