Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 2
Sixteen years ago that woman was a child, playing in the garden of the old parsonage, in the country.
Who acts: woman, child · What happens: be, play · To what, where: child, garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, child), 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 | Sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 child | mark |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 child | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 child | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ago | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 playing | punct |
| 10 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 child | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 playing | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 parsonage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 parsonage | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 parsonage | amod |
| 17 | parsonage | parsonage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 garden | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 country | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 playing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | woman | a child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund | a child not said here | the garden of the old parsonage | in the country | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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