Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourth Evening, sentence 7
But under the chandelier was a vacant space like a little crater: not a single soul sat there, for the tallow was dropping, drip, drip!
Who acts: single soul, tallow · What happens: be, sit, drop · To what, where: vacant space, chandelier, little crater, drip
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single soul, tallow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 space | cc |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 chandelier | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chandelier | det |
| 4 | chandelier | chandelier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 space | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 space | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 space | det |
| 7 | vacant | vacant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 space | amod |
| 8 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 crater | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crater | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 crater | amod |
| 12 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 space | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 sat | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 soul | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 soul | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 soul | amod |
| 17 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | nsubj |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 crater | acl:relcl |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 sat | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dropping | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 dropping | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tallow | det |
| 23 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dropping | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dropping | aux |
| 25 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 sat | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 drip | punct |
| 27 | drip | drip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dropping | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drip | punct |
| 29 | drip | drip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drip | conj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 space | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a vacant space | the chandelier | like a little crater | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | past | a single soul | a little crater not said here | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crater=Theme | |||
| 3 | drop | past · progressive | the tallow | drip and drip | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drip=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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