Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 101
Some days afterwards there was an auction at the old house, and the little boy saw from his window how they carried the old knights and the old ladies away, the flower-pots with the long ears, the old chairs, and the old clothes-presses.
Who acts: auction, little boy, friends · What happens: be, see, carry · To what, where: window, old knights
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (auction, little boy, friends), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 was | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 days | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 auction | det |
| 7 | auction | auction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 auction | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boy | amod |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 was | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 window | nmod:poss |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 carried | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carried | nsubj |
| 23 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 knights | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 knights | amod |
| 26 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 carried | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ladies | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ladies | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ladies | amod |
| 30 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 knights | conj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 carried | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pots | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 pots | det |
| 34 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pots | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 flower | punct |
| 36 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 carried | parataxis |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 ears | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ears | det |
| 39 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 ears | amod |
| 40 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 pots | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 chairs | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 chairs | det |
| 43 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 chairs | amod |
| 44 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 ears | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 presses | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 presses | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 clothes | det |
| 48 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 clothes | amod |
| 49 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 51 presses | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 clothes | punct |
| 51 | presses | press | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 carried | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a auction at the old house | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | the little boy | boy's window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | friends = friend | the old knights and the old ladies | clothes presses obl; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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