Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 89
For full twenty years it stood in the loft, and it might have stayed there longer but that the house was going to be rebuilt.
Who acts: letter, house · What happens: stand, stay, go, rebuild · To what, where: loft, letter
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 (letter, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 loft | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 loft | det |
| 9 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stayed | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stayed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stayed | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stayed | aux |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stood | conj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 longer | advmod |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 stayed | advmod |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 going | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 going | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 going | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 stayed | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 rebuilt | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 rebuilt | aux:pass |
| 26 | rebuilt | rebuild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 going | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | letter | the loft | year | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in loft=Location | |||
| 2 | stay | might · perfect · passive | letter | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | the house | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | rebuild | to-infinitive · passive | the house not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |
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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