Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 41

The neighboring house had a something familiar about it; a window stood open; he flew in; it was his own room.

Who acts: neighboring house, window, last · What happens: neighbor, have, stand, fly in, be · To what, where: something, own room

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighboring house, window, last), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 something	det
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 had	obj
7	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 familiar	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
14	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	17 flew	compound:prt
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 room	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 room	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 room	cop
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 room	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 room	amod
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	neighbor	gerund				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the neighboring house	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	stand	past	a window		open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fly in	past	window			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	last	window's own room		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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