Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 7
In the warm lands every window has a balcony, and the people came out on all the balconies in the street--for one must have air, even if one be accustomed to be mahogany!
Who acts: window, people, one · What happens: have, come out, accustom, be · To what, where: balcony, warm lands, balconies, air, one, mahogany
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 (window, people, one), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 lands | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lands | det |
| 3 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lands | amod |
| 4 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 has | obl |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 balcony | det |
| 9 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 has | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 balconies | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 balconies | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 balconies | det |
| 19 | balconies | balcony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 street | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 street | det |
| 22 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 balconies | nmod |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 have | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | conj |
| 28 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 accustomed | punct |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 accustomed | advmod |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 accustomed | mark |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 accustomed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 34 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 have | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 mahogany | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 mahogany | cop |
| 37 | mahogany | mahogany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 accustomed | xcomp |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every window | a balcony | the warm lands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balcony=Patient | |||
| 2 | come out | past | the people | all balconies in the street | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | have | must | one | air | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | ||||
| 4 | accustom a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | one | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | mahogany | 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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