Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 1

"Close by the high-road," said the Moon, "is an inn, and opposite to it is a great waggon-shed, whose straw roof was just being re-thatched.

Who acts: Moon, inn · What happens: say, be, re-thatch · To what, where: inn, great waggon shed, straw roof · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, inn), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Close	punct
2	Close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 inn	csubj
3	by	by	ADP	_	7 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 road	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 high	punct
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Close	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Close	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Close	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Close	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Moon	det
12	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Close	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Close	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 inn	cop
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 inn	det
17	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shed	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 opposite	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 opposite	cc
20	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 inn	amod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 opposite	obl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 shed	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 shed	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shed	amod
26	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shed	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 waggon	punct
28	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 re-thatched	punct
30	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	32 roof	nmod:poss
31	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 roof	compound
32	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 re-thatched	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 re-thatched	aux
34	just	just	ADV	_	36 re-thatched	advmod
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 re-thatched	aux:pass
36	re-thatched	re-thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 shed	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 shed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Moon		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		a inn	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	a inn	a great waggon shed	tree rules
4	re-thatch in a quote	past · progressive · passive		straw roof	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: «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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