Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 2
I stood in my little room, more lonely than ever, and looked up at the sky where he ought to have shown himself.
Who acts: I · What happens: stand, look up, show · To what, where: little room, Moon
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 room | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lonely | punct |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 lonely | advmod |
| 9 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 ever | case |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 lonely | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 looked | compound:prt |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sky | det |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 shown | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ought | nsubj |
| 21 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 shown | aux |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 shown | mark |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 shown | aux |
| 24 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 sky | acl:relcl |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 shown | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | I | my little room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | ||||
| 2 | look up | past | I not said here | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | ought · perfect | I not said here | Moon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
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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