Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 1

In a house, with a large courtyard, in a provincial town, at that time of the year in which people say the evenings are growing longer, a family circle were gathered together at their old home.

Who acts: people, evenings · What happens: say, grow, gather · To what, where: family circle, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, evenings), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gathered	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 courtyard	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 courtyard	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 courtyard	det
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 courtyard	amod
8	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 town	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 town	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 town	det
12	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 town	amod
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 time	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 town	obl:unmarked
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 year	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 year	det
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 time	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 say	obl
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 time	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 evenings	det
26	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 growing	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 growing	aux
28	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 say	ccomp
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 growing	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 house	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 circle	det
32	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 circle	compound
33	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gathered	nsubj:pass
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 gathered	aux:pass
35	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
36	together	together	ADV	_	35 gathered	advmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	40 home	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 home	nmod:poss
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 home	amod
40	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gathered	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	people			in that time of the year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow	present · progressive	the evenings				long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gather	past · passive		a family circle	a house and a large courtyard and a provincial town		at people's old home; together property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at home=Asset

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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