Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 1

There is a street in Copenhagen with a very strange name.

Who acts: street · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (street), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 street	det
4	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Copenhagen	case
6	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 street	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 name	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 name	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 strange	advmod
10	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 name	amod
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 street	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a street in Copenhagen with a strange name			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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