Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 1
A very old house stood once in a street with several that were quite new and clean.
Who acts: old house, several · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: street
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old house, several), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 old | advmod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 street | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 street | det |
| 9 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 new | mark |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 new | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 new | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 new | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 new | advmod |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clean | cc |
| 17 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 new | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a old house | a street | once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in street=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | several | new property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | several not said here | tree rules |
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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