Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 103
In the spring they pulled the house down, for, as people said, it was a ruin.
Who acts: portraits, people, house · What happens: pull down, say, be · To what, where: house, ruin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (portraits, people, house), 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 spring | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spring | det |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pulled | nsubj |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | obj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 pulled | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 for | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 pulled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulled | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ruin | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ruin | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ruin | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ruin | det |
| 19 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull down | past | portraits = portrait | the house | spring | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | house | a ruin | tree rules |
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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