Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 116
A few days after, there was an auction at the old house, and from his window the little boy saw the people carrying away the pictures of old knights and ladies, the flower-pots with the long ears, the old chairs, and the cup-boards.
Who acts: auction, little boy, people · What happens: be, see, carry away · To what, where: people, window, pictures
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 (auction, little boy, people), 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 | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 after | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | after | after | ADV | _ | 7 was | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 after | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 auction | det |
| 9 | auction | auction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 auction | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 window | nmod:poss |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 boy | amod |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 was | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 people | acl |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 carrying | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pictures | det |
| 28 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 carrying | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 knights | case |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 knights | amod |
| 31 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 pictures | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 ladies | cc |
| 33 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 knights | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pots | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 pots | det |
| 36 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pots | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 flower | punct |
| 38 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 people | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 ears | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 ears | det |
| 41 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 ears | amod |
| 42 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 pots | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 chairs | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 chairs | det |
| 45 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 chairs | amod |
| 46 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 ears | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 boards | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 boards | cc |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 boards | det |
| 50 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 boards | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 cup | punct |
| 52 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saw | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a auction at the old house | there | after property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | the little boy | the people and the flower pots with the long ears and the old chairs | auction's window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | carry away | gerund | the people and the flower pots with the long ears and the old chairs not said here | the pictures of old knights and ladies | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
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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