Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 210
Then his opposite neighbor stepped over to the house in which old Anthony lived, for he had not yet showed himself.
Who acts: opposite neighbor, old Anthony, Anthony · What happens: step over, live, not show · To what, where: house, tree
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 (opposite neighbor, old Anthony, Anthony), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 neighbor | amod |
| 4 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | nsubj |
| 5 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 stepped | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lived | obl |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Anthony | amod |
| 13 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 house | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 showed | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 showed | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 showed | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 showed | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 showed | advmod |
| 20 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 21 showed | advmod |
| 21 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stepped | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 showed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step over | past | tree's opposite neighbor | the house | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 2 | live | past | old Anthony | the house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 3 | not show | past | Anthony | tree | yet | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
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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