Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 81
It is called the "Venus Mountain," and the story goes that the "Lady Venus," one of the heathen goddesses, keeps house there.
Who acts: story, Lady Venus · What happens: call, go, keep · To what, where: outline, Lady Venus, house · 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 (story, Lady Venus), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mountain | det |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Venus | punct |
| 6 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mountain | compound |
| 7 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mountain | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mountain | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 goes | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 goes | nsubj |
| 13 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 Venus | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Venus | det |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Venus | punct |
| 17 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Venus | compound |
| 18 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 goes | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 Venus | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 goddesses | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 goddesses | det |
| 24 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 goddesses | amod |
| 25 | goddesses | goddess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 keeps | punct |
| 27 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Venus | acl:relcl |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keeps | obj |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 house | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | outline | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | go | present | the story | the Lady Venus | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | the Lady Venus not said here | house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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