Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 23
And then there was a flight of stairs which went a good way upwards, and a little way downwards, and then one came on a balcony which was in a very dilapidated state, sure enough, with large holes and long crevices, but grass grew there and leaves out of them altogether, for the whole balcony outside, the yard, and the walls, were overgrown with so much green stuff, that it looked like a garden; only a balcony.
Who acts: flight, little way, balcony, grass · What happens: go, be, dilapidate, grow, leave out, overgrow · To what, where: good way, balcony, dilapidated state, crevices, walls
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 (flight, little way, balcony, grass), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 was | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flight | det |
| 6 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stairs | case |
| 8 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flight | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flight | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obj |
| 14 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 20 | downwards | downwards | ADV | _ | 19 way | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 one | advmod |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 balcony | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 balcony | det |
| 28 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 state | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 state | cop |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 state | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 state | det |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 dilapidated | advmod |
| 34 | dilapidated | dilapidate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 state | amod |
| 35 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 balcony | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sure | punct |
| 37 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 state | conj |
| 38 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 37 sure | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 holes | punct |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 holes | case |
| 41 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 holes | amod |
| 42 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 sure | parataxis |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 crevices | cc |
| 44 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 crevices | amod |
| 45 | crevices | crevice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 holes | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 grew | punct |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 grew | cc |
| 48 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 grew | nsubj |
| 49 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | parataxis |
| 50 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 grew | advmod |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 leaves | cc |
| 52 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 grew | conj |
| 53 | out | out | ADP | _ | 55 them | case |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 them | case |
| 55 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 leaves | obl |
| 56 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 52 leaves | advmod |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 balcony | punct |
| 58 | for | for | ADP | _ | 61 balcony | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 balcony | det |
| 60 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 balcony | amod |
| 61 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 grew | obl |
| 62 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 61 balcony | advmod |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 yard | punct |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 yard | det |
| 65 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 balcony | conj |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 72 overgrown | punct |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 72 overgrown | cc |
| 68 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 69 walls | det |
| 69 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 72 overgrown | nsubj |
| 70 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 walls | punct |
| 71 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 72 overgrown | aux:pass |
| 72 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 grew | conj |
| 73 | with | with | ADP | _ | 77 stuff | case |
| 74 | so | so | ADV | _ | 75 much | advmod |
| 75 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 77 stuff | amod |
| 76 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 77 stuff | amod |
| 77 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 overgrown | obl |
| 78 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 81 looked | punct |
| 79 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 81 looked | mark |
| 80 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 81 looked | nsubj |
| 81 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 72 overgrown | parataxis |
| 82 | like | like | ADP | _ | 84 garden | case |
| 83 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 84 garden | det |
| 84 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 81 looked | obl |
| 85 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 88 balcony | punct |
| 86 | only | only | ADV | _ | 88 balcony | advmod |
| 87 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 88 balcony | det |
| 88 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 89 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a flight of stairs | a good way | upwards property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | a little way | a balcony | a balcony obl; come property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dilapidate | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | a balcony | a dilapidated state | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | a balcony not said here | enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | grow | past | grass | there | for the whole balcony and the yard | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | leave out | present | grass not said here | crevices = crevice | altogether property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 8 | overgrow | past · passive | the walls | with much green stuff | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | look | past | grass | like a garden | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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