Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening, sentence 3
It was not the house in which Goethe was born, nor the old Council House, through whose grated windows peered the horns of the oxen that were roasted and given to the people when the emperors were crowned.
Who acts: building, grated windows · What happens: not be, bear, grate, peer, roast, give · To what, where: house, Goethe, horns, oxen, people, emperors
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (building, grated windows), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 house | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 house | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 house | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 born | obl |
| 8 | Goethe | Goethe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 born | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 born | aux:pass |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 house | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 House | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 House | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 House | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 House | amod |
| 15 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 House | compound |
| 16 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 born | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 peered | punct |
| 18 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 22 peered | mark |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 windows | nmod:poss |
| 20 | grated | grate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 windows | amod |
| 21 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 peered | nsubj |
| 22 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 born | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 horns | det |
| 24 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 peered | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 oxen | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 oxen | det |
| 27 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 horns | nmod |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 roasted | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 roasted | aux:pass |
| 30 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 oxen | acl:relcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 given | cc |
| 32 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 roasted | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 people | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 people | det |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 given | obl |
| 36 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 crowned | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 emperors | det |
| 38 | emperors | emperor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 crowned | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 crowned | aux:pass |
| 40 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 roasted | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | building | the house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | Goethe | the house | the old Council House obl | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | grate | participle | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | peer | past | grated windows | the horns of the oxen | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | roast | past · passive | the oxen | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | give | participle | the people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | crown | past · passive | the emperors | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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