Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 2
The one story stood forward a great way over the other; and directly under the eaves was a leaden spout with a dragon's head; the rain-water should have run out of the mouth, but it ran out of the belly, for there was a hole in the spout.
Who acts: one story, water, hole · What happens: stand, be, run · To what, where: great way, leaden spout, rain water, mouth, belly
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 (one story, water, hole), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 story | nummod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 other | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 spout | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 directly | cc |
| 14 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 21 spout | advmod |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 eaves | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eaves | det |
| 17 | eaves | eave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 directly | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 spout | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 spout | det |
| 20 | leaden | leaden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spout | amod |
| 21 | spout | spout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dragon | det |
| 24 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 dragon | case |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spout | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 run | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 water | det |
| 29 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 water | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 rain | punct |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 run | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 run | aux |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 run | aux |
| 34 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 mouth | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 mouth | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mouth | det |
| 38 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 run | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ran | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 ran | cc |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 ran | nsubj |
| 42 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 belly | case |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 belly | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 belly | det |
| 46 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ran | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 was | punct |
| 48 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 50 was | mark |
| 49 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 50 was | expl |
| 50 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 ran | conj |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 hole | det |
| 52 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 was | nsubj |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 spout | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 spout | det |
| 55 | spout | spout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 hole | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the one story | a great way over the other | forward property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a leaden spout | with a dragon's head; directly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | should · perfect · passive | the rain water | the mouth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme out mouth=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | run | past | water | the belly | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out belly=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | be | past | a hole in the spout | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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