Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 47

“At a hundred human paces from here there sits a little snail in her house, on a gooseberry bush; she is quite lonely, and old enough to be married.

Who acts: hundred human paces, wife · What happens: sit, be, marry · To what, where: little snail, house

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred human paces, wife), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 sits	punct
2	At	at	ADP	_	6 paces	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 paces	nummod
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paces	amod
6	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sits	nsubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 here	case
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 paces	nmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 paces	advmod
10	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 snail	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 snail	amod
13	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sits	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 house	nmod:poss
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snail	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bush	punct
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 bush	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bush	det
20	gooseberry	gooseberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bush	compound
21	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sits	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 lonely	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lonely	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 lonely	cop
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 lonely	advmod
26	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sits	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 old	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 old	cc
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lonely	conj
30	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 old	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	33 married	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 married	aux:pass
33	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 old	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	present	hundred human paces	a little snail	wife's house	on a gooseberry bush	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent snail=Theme on bush=Location
2	is in a quote	present	wife			lonely property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		wife not said here			enough property	tree rules
4	marry in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	wife not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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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