Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 11

Only in that single house, which stood opposite that in which the learned foreigner lived, it was quite still; and yet some one lived there, for there stood flowers in the balcony--they grew so well in the sun's heat! and that they could not do unless they were watered--and some one must water them--there must be somebody there.

Who acts: opposite, foreigner, one, flowers, sun · What happens: stand, learn, live, be, grow, not do · To what, where: opposite, single house, flowers, balcony, heat, somebody

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opposite, foreigner, one, flowers), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	5 house	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 house	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lived	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lived	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 foreigner	det
14	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 foreigner	amod
15	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	nsubj
16	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 opposite	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 still	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 still	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 still	cop
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 still	advmod
21	still	still	ADV	_	8 stood	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 lived	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lived	cc
24	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 lived	advmod
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lived	nsubj
27	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	parataxis
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 lived	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stood	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 stood	mark
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 stood	advmod
32	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lived	conj
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 stood	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 balcony	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 balcony	det
36	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stood	obl
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 grew	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 grew	nsubj
39	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lived	conj
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 well	advmod
41	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 grew	advmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	46 heat	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sun	det
44	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 heat	nmod:poss
45	's	's	PART	_	44 sun	case
46	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 grew	obl
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 grew	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 do	cc
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 do	mark
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 do	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 do	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 do	advmod
53	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 grew	conj
54	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	57 watered	mark
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 watered	nsubj:pass
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 watered	aux:pass
57	watered	water	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 do	advcl
58	--	--	PUNCT	_	63 water	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 water	cc
60	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	61 one	det
61	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 water	nsubj
62	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 water	aux
63	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
64	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 water	nmod
65	--	--	PUNCT	_	69 somebody	punct
66	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	68 be	expl
67	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 be	aux
68	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	69 somebody	cop
69	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	63 water	conj
70	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	69 somebody	advmod
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		opposite	that single house			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent opposite=Theme in house=Destination
2	learn	participle						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live	past	opposite		opposite			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
4	is	past	foreigner				still property	tree rules
5	live	past	some one		there	yet		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	past	some one not said here	flowers	the balcony; there			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme in balcony=Destination
7	grow	past	flowers = flower		the sun's heat		well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heat=Location
8	not do	could	flowers = flower					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	water a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		flowers = flower				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
10	water	must	some one	flowers = flower				tree rules
11	is a	infinitive	some one not said here	somebody	there			tree rules
12	heat		the sun					nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

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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