Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 107
A fine house was built there, with large windows, and smooth white walls; but before it, where the old house had in fact stood, was a little garden laid out, and a wild grapevine ran up the wall of the neighboring house.
Who acts: old house, wild grapevine · What happens: build, have, stand, be, lay out, run up · To what, where: fine house, fact, little garden, wall
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 (old house, wild grapevine), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 house | amod |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 built | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 windows | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 windows | case |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 windows | amod |
| 10 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walls | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walls | cc |
| 13 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 walls | amod |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 walls | amod |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 windows | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 it | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 it | cc |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 built | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 had | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 house | amod |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 it | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 fact | case |
| 27 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obl |
| 28 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 had | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 garden | punct |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 garden | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 garden | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 garden | amod |
| 33 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obl |
| 34 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 garden | acl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 laid | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 ran | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 ran | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 grapevine | det |
| 39 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 grapevine | amod |
| 40 | grapevine | grapevine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ran | nsubj |
| 41 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stood | conj |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 ran | compound:prt |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 wall | det |
| 44 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ran | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 house | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 house | det |
| 47 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 house | amod |
| 48 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wall | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | a fine house | there | before grass | with large windows and smooth white walls | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with window=Source | ||
| 2 | have | past | the old house | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the old house not said here | fact | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fact=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a little garden | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | lay out | participle | a little garden not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | run up | past | a wild grapevine | the wall of the neighboring house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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