Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 22
The house, with its pointed gable, narrow windows, overhanging walls and stories, projecting one beyond another, looked just the same as in former times.
Who acts: narrow windows, house · What happens: overhang, project, look · To what, where: walls, one, another
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (narrow windows, house), 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 | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gable | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 gable | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gable | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gable | amod |
| 7 | gable | gable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 house | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 windows | punct |
| 9 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 windows | amod |
| 10 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gable | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 overhanging | punct |
| 12 | overhanging | overhang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 windows | acl |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 overhanging | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stories | cc |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 walls | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 projecting | punct |
| 17 | projecting | project | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 overhanging | conj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 projecting | obj |
| 19 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 20 another | case |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 house | punct |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 same | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 same | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 looked | xcomp |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 times | case |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 times | case |
| 28 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 times | amod |
| 29 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 same | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhang | gerund | narrow windows not said here | walls and stories | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | project | gerund | narrow windows not said here | one | another | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme beyond another=Destination | |||
| 3 | look | past | the house | same property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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