Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 164

The old house was still standing as in olden times, but the garden had been greatly altered; a pathway led through a portion of the ground, and outside the garden, and beyond the path, stood the old apple-tree, which he had not broken down, although he talked of doing so in his trouble.

Who acts: old house, tree · What happens: stand, alter, lead, not break down, talk, do · To what, where: pathway, garden, portion, old apple tree, path, trouble

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 (old house, tree), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 standing	advmod
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 times	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 times	case
9	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 times	amod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 standing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 altered	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 altered	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garden	det
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 altered	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 altered	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 altered	aux:pass
17	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	18 altered	advmod
18	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 standing	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 pathway	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pathway	det
21	pathway	pathway	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
22	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 pathway	acl
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 portion	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 portion	det
25	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 led	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 portion	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 garden	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 garden	cc
31	outside	outside	ADP	_	33 garden	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 garden	det
33	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pathway	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stood	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 stood	cc
36	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	38 path	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 path	det
38	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stood	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 path	punct
40	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	parataxis
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 tree	det
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tree	amod
43	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tree	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 apple	punct
45	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stood	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 broken	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 broken	nsubj:pass
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 broken	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 broken	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 broken	advmod
51	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 tree	conj
52	down	down	ADP	_	51 broken	compound:prt
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 talked	punct
54	although	although	SCONJ	_	56 talked	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 talked	nsubj
56	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 stood	conj
57	of	of	SCONJ	_	58 doing	mark
58	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 talked	advcl
59	so	so	ADV	_	58 doing	advmod
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 trouble	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 trouble	nmod:poss
62	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 doing	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the old house	a pathway and the garden		still; time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	alter	past · perfect · passive		the garden			greatly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	lead	participle		a pathway and the garden not said here	a portion of the ground			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through portion=Destination
4	stand	past		the old apple tree	the path			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme beyond path=Destination
5	not break down	past · perfect · passive		the old apple tree				vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	talk	past	tree					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	do	gerund	tree not said here		tree's trouble			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	trouble		tree					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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