Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 24

“Thorwaldsen lived almost next door to me.

Who acts: Thorwaldsen · What happens: live · To what, where: next door, krabledy

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thorwaldsen), 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	_	3 lived	punct
2	Thorwaldsen	Thorwaldsen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 next	advmod
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	amod
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lived	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	past	Thorwaldsen	next door	krabledy				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme door=Location

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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