Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 13
Opposite to the old house were more nice new houses, which had just the same opinion as their neighbors.
Who acts: new houses · What happens: be, have · To what, where: same opinion
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 (new houses), 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 | Opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Opposite | obl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 nice | cop |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 nice | advmod |
| 8 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Opposite | conj |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 houses | amod |
| 10 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nice | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 houses | acl:relcl |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 opinion | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 opinion | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 opinion | amod |
| 17 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 neighbors | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 20 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Opposite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | new houses | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | new houses | the same opinion | as stairs's neighbors | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient |
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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