Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 28
Some hundred paces from it lies the manor-house Ny Soe, where Thorwaldsen, the famed sculptor, generally sojourned during his stay in Denmark, and where he called many of his immortal works into existence.
Who acts: hundred paces, Thorwaldsen, house, many · What happens: lie, fame, sojourn, call, work, stay · To what, where: Ny Soe, Denmark, existence · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hundred paces, Thorwaldsen, house, many), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 paces | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 paces | nummod |
| 3 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paces | nmod |
| 6 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 8 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 manor | punct |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Soe | nsubj |
| 11 | Ny | Ny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Soe | compound |
| 12 | Soe | Soe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lies | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sojourned | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 sojourned | advmod |
| 15 | Thorwaldsen | Thorwaldsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sojourned | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sculptor | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sculptor | det |
| 18 | famed | fame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sculptor | amod |
| 19 | sculptor | sculptor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Thorwaldsen | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sojourned | punct |
| 21 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 22 sojourned | advmod |
| 22 | sojourned | sojourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Soe | acl:relcl |
| 23 | during | during | ADP | _ | 25 stay | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 stay | nmod:poss |
| 25 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sojourned | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Denmark | case |
| 27 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sojourned | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 called | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 called | cc |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 called | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 called | nsubj |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lies | parataxis |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 works | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 immortal | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 immortal | nmod:poss |
| 36 | immortal | immortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 many | nmod |
| 37 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 called | ccomp |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 existence | case |
| 39 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 works | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | some hundred paces from body | Ny Soe | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fame | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sojourn | past | Thorwaldsen | Denmark | during Thorwaldsen's stay | generally property | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in denmark=Location | ||
| 4 | call speech: assert | past | house | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | work | present | many of Thorwaldsen's immortal | existence | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into existence=Product | ||||
| 6 | stay | Thorwaldsen | nom stay «act 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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