Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 2
A lonely hut stood by the wayside, a few scanty bushes grew near it, and a nightingale who had lost his way sang sweetly.
Who acts: lonely hut, few scanty bushes, nightingale · What happens: stand, grow, lose, sing · To what, where: hut, way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lonely hut, few scanty bushes, nightingale), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hut | det |
| 2 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hut | amod |
| 3 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 wayside | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wayside | det |
| 7 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bushes | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bushes | amod |
| 11 | scanty | scanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bushes | compound |
| 12 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sang | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sang | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 nightingale | det |
| 19 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sang | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lost | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lost | aux |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 nightingale | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lost | obj |
| 25 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 26 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 25 sang | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a lonely hut | by the wayside | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wayside=Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | a few scanty bushes | hut | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near it=Location | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | a nightingale | nightingale's way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | a nightingale | sweetly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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