Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 87
I saw you all in your house opposite, as if you were really present.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: see, be · To what, where: you, house
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 8 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 present | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 present | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 present | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 present | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 present | cop |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 present | advmod |
| 15 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | you | your house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | you | present property | 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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