Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 156
Here is my card--I live on the sunny side of the street, and am always at home in rainy weather!”
Who acts: card, I · What happens: be, live · To what, where: sunny side, home
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 (card, I), 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 | 7 live | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 card | nmod:poss |
| 4 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 live | nsubj |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 street | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 street | det |
| 14 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 home | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 home | cc |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 home | cop |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 home | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 weather | case |
| 22 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 weather | amod |
| 23 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 home | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my card | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | I | the sunny side of the street | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | home | in rainy weather; always property | tree rules |
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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