Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 58
In the farmhouse lived a young married couple; they loved each other dearly, were industrious and active, and everything in their home looked very nice.
Who acts: farmhouse, birds, everything · What happens: live, love, be, look · To what, where: young married couple, each
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 (farmhouse, birds, everything), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 farmhouse | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmhouse | det |
| 3 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 couple | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 couple | amod |
| 7 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 couple | amod |
| 8 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 loved | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | parataxis |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 loved | obj |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | dearly | dearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 industrious | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 industrious | cop |
| 17 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 loved | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 active | cc |
| 19 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 industrious | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 looked | cc |
| 22 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 home | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 home | nmod:poss |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 everything | nmod |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | conj |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 nice | advmod |
| 28 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 looked | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the farmhouse | a young married couple | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme couple=Location | ||||
| 2 | love | past | birds = bird | each | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | birds = bird not said here | industrious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | birds = bird not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | look | past | everything | nice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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