Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 108
When the sun rose again and everything looked as refreshed as if it had had a quiet sleep, there only remained of the farmhouse a few black charred beams leaning against the chimney, which was now its own master.
Who acts: sun, life, few black charred beams, chimney · What happens: rise, refresh, have, remain, char, lean · To what, where: everything, quiet sleep, few black charred beams, chimney, own master
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, life, few black charred beams, chimney), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 remained | advcl |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 rose | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 refreshed | cc |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 refreshed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 refreshed | aux |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 refreshed | advmod |
| 10 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rose | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | aux |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 refreshed | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sleep | det |
| 17 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sleep | amod |
| 18 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 remained | expl |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 remained | advmod |
| 22 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 farmhouse | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 farmhouse | det |
| 25 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remained | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 beams | det |
| 27 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 beams | amod |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 beams | amod |
| 29 | charred | char | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 beams | amod |
| 30 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 beams | acl |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 34 chimney | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 chimney | det |
| 34 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaning | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 master | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 master | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 master | cop |
| 38 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 master | advmod |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 master | nmod:poss |
| 40 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 master | amod |
| 41 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 chimney | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | refresh | past · passive | everything | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have | past · perfect | life | a quiet sleep | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient | ||||
| 4 | remain | participle · passive | a few black charred beams | there | of the farmhouse | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||
| 5 | char | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | lean | gerund | a few black charred beams not said here | the chimney and life's own master | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against chimney=Location | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | the chimney and life's own master | life's own master | now | 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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