Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 178
Thus it happened that Anthony's neighbors, who lived opposite to him, did not notice that his house remained unopened for two days, and that he had not showed himself during that time, for who would go out in such weather unless he were obliged to do so.
Who acts: it, neighbors, house, neighbor · What happens: happen, live, not notice, remain, have, not show · To what, where: opposite, Anthony, neighbor, such weather · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (it, neighbors, house, neighbor), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 lived | mark |
| 5 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Anthony | case |
| 7 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 11 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 notice | punct |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 notice | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 notice | advmod |
| 17 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 remained | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remained | nsubj |
| 21 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 notice | ccomp |
| 22 | unopened | unopened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 remained | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 days | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 days | nummod |
| 25 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 remained | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 showed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 showed | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 had | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 showed | advcl |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 showed | advmod |
| 32 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 showed | obj |
| 34 | during | during | ADP | _ | 36 time | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 time | det |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 showed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 go | punct |
| 38 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 go | mark |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 go | nsubj |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 go | aux |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 showed | conj |
| 42 | out | out | ADV | _ | 41 go | advmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 weather | case |
| 44 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 weather | amod |
| 45 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 go | obl |
| 46 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 49 obliged | mark |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 obliged | nsubj |
| 48 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 obliged | aux:pass |
| 49 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 go | advcl |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 do | mark |
| 51 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 obliged | xcomp |
| 52 | so | so | ADV | _ | 51 do | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | thus property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Anthony's neighbors | opposite | Anthony | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme opposite=Location | |||
| 3 | not notice | past · do-support | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | remain | past | neighbor's house | day | unopened property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | past | neighbor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not show | past | neighbor | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | go out | would | such weather | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | oblige a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | neighbor | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 9 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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