Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening, sentence 4
No, it was a private house, plain in appearance, and painted green.
Who acts: building · What happens: be, paint · To what, where: private house
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), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 house | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 house | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 house | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 plain | punct |
| 9 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 appearance | case |
| 11 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plain | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 painted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 painted | cc |
| 14 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 plain | parataxis |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 painted | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | building | a private house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | green property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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