Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 69
In the farmhouse was an old man who understood making soap into cakes and balls, both for shaving and washing.
Who acts: old man · What happens: be, understand, make · To what, where: old man, farmhouse, soap, cakes
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 (old man), 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 | 7 man | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 understood | nsubj |
| 9 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 understood | xcomp |
| 11 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 cakes | case |
| 13 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 making | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 balls | cc |
| 15 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cakes | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shaving | punct |
| 17 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 19 shaving | cc:preconj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 shaving | case |
| 19 | shaving | shaving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 washing | cc |
| 21 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shaving | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a old man both shaving and washing | the farmhouse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | a old man both shaving and washing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a old man both shaving and washing not said here | soap | cakes and balls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent soap=Material into cake=Product |
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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