Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 66
It is not here like it was in your house opposite, when your father and mother talked so cheerfully together, while you and all the dear children made such a delightful noise.
Who acts: book, father, you · What happens: not be, be, talk, make · To what, where: house opposite, delightful noise
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 (book, father, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 here | advmod |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 opposite | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 opposite | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 opposite | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 opposite | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 opposite | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opposite | compound |
| 11 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 here | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 talked | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 talked | advmod |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 talked | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mother | cc |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 father | conj |
| 18 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | parataxis |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 together | advmod |
| 20 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 21 together | advmod |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 talked | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 made | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 made | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 made | cc |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 children | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 children | det |
| 28 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 children | amod |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 made | nsubj |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 talked | conj |
| 31 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 noise | det:predet |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 noise | det |
| 33 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 noise | amod |
| 34 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | book | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | book | your house opposite | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | past | your father and mother | together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | past | you | such delightful noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product |
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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