Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 5

An old woman and her little granddaughter live there: they rule now in the palace of the Caesars, and show to strangers the remains of its past glories.

Who acts: old woman, woman, palace · What happens: live, rule, show, glory · To what, where: palace, remains, strangers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, palace), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 live	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 granddaughter	cc
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 granddaughter	nmod:poss
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 granddaughter	amod
7	granddaughter	granddaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woman	conj
8	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 live	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 rule	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rule	nsubj
12	rule	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 live	conj
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 rule	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 palace	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 palace	det
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rule	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Caesars	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Caesars	det
19	Caesars	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 palace	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 show	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 show	cc
22	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 live	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 strangers	case
24	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 show	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 remains	det
26	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 show	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 glories	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 glories	nmod:poss
29	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 glories	amod
30	glories	glory	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 remains	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	live	present	a old woman and vine's little granddaughter			there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rule	present	woman			the palace of the Caesars	now	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	show	infinitive		the remains of palace's past glories	strangers			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent remains=Topic to stranger=Recipient
4	glory		palace					nom glory «state 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: «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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