Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 155
It is a curious man's nest all the same; and what have they put up here?
Who acts: room · What happens: be, put up · To what, where: nest
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 (room), 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 | 7 nest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 nest | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nest | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 man | case |
| 7 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 same | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 same | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nest | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 put | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 nest | acl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 put | compound:prt |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 put | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 nest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | room | a curious man's nest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | room not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | put up | present · perfect · passive | a curious man's nest | here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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