Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 53
Here it is not at all as it is over the way at your home, where your father and mother spoke so pleasantly, and where you and all your sweet children made such a delightful noise.
Who acts: book, father, you · What happens: be, speak, make · To what, where: way, delightful noise · 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 (book, father, you), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 all | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 all | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 all | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Here | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 way | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 way | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | cop |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 way | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoke | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 spoke | advmod |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoke | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mother | cc |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 father | conj |
| 22 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 pleasantly | advmod |
| 24 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 22 spoke | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 made | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 made | cc |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 made | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 made | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 made | cc |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 children | det:predet |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 children | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 children | amod |
| 33 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 made | nsubj |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | parataxis |
| 35 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 noise | det:predet |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 noise | det |
| 37 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 noise | amod |
| 38 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | book | the way | at your home | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | your father and mother | pleasantly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | you | such delightful noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product |
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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