Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Evening, sentence 2
In the courtyard sat a clucking hen with eleven chickens; and a pretty little girl was running and jumping around them.
Who acts: little girl · What happens: sit, cluck, run, jump · To what, where: clucking hen, courtyard
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girl), 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 courtyard | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 courtyard | det |
| 3 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hen | det |
| 6 | clucking | cluck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hen | amod |
| 7 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 chickens | case |
| 9 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 chickens | nummod |
| 10 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 running | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 running | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 15 little | advmod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 running | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 running | aux |
| 18 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sat | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 jumping | cc |
| 20 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 running | conj |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 jumping | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a clucking hen | the courtyard | with eleven chickens | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme in courtyard=Location | |||
| 2 | cluck | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | run | past · progressive | a little girl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | jump | gerund | a little girl not said here | around chickens = chicken | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Trajectory |
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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