Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 5

Hauschen," means a little house; and for many years it consisted only of a few small houses, which were scarcely larger than the wooden booths we see in the market-places at fair time.

Who acts: Hauschen, house, few small houses, we · What happens: mean, consist, be, see · To what, where: little house, few small houses, wooden booths, market places

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 (Hauschen, house, few small houses, we), 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	Hauschen	Hauschen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hauschen	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Hauschen	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 consisted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 consisted	cc
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 consisted	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 consisted	nsubj
14	consisted	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 means	conj
15	only	only	ADV	_	20 houses	advmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 houses	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 houses	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 houses	amod
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 houses	amod
20	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 consisted	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 larger	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 larger	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 larger	cop
24	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	25 larger	advmod
25	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 houses	conj
26	than	than	ADP	_	29 booths	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 booths	det
28	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 booths	amod
29	booths	booth	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 larger	obl
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
31	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 booths	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 places	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 places	det
34	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 places	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 market	punct
36	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 see	obl
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 time	case
38	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 time	amod
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 places	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present	Hauschen	a little house				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic
2	consist in a quote	past	house	a few small houses		year		tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	a few small houses				than the wooden booths; large, scarcely property	tree rules
4	see in a quote	present	we	the wooden booths not said here	the market places at fair time			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer booth=Stimulus

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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