Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 2
This house was inhabited by poor people, but the deepest poverty was apparent in the garret lodging in the gable.
Who acts: poor people, deepest poverty, garret · What happens: inhabit, be, lodge · To what, where: house, garret, gable
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor people, deepest poverty, garret), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inhabited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 4 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 inhabited | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 apparent | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 apparent | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 poverty | det |
| 11 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 poverty | amod |
| 12 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 apparent | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 apparent | cop |
| 14 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 inhabited | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 garret | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garret | det |
| 17 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 apparent | obl |
| 18 | lodging | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 garret | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 gable | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gable | det |
| 21 | gable | gable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lodging | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inhabited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inhabit | past · passive | poor people | this house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the deepest poverty | the garret | apparent property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lodge | gerund | the garret not said here | the gable | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gable=Location |
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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