Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 4
One story projected a long way over the other, and under the roof ran a leaden gutter, with a dragon's head at the end.
Who acts: One story · What happens: project, run · To what, where: long way, other, leaden gutter, roof
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 (One story), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 story | nummod |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 projected | nsubj |
| 3 | projected | project | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 projected | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 other | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 projected | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 roof | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roof | det |
| 14 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 projected | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gutter | det |
| 17 | leaden | leaden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gutter | amod |
| 18 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 head | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dragon | det |
| 22 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 dragon | case |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 end | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 head | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 projected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | project | past | One story | a long way | the other | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme over other=Destination | |||
| 2 | run | past | One story not said here | a leaden gutter | the roof | with a dragon's head at the end | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent gutter=Theme under roof=Trajectory |
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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