Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 3
I have no doubt that you have been in the country, and seen a very old farmhouse, with a thatched roof, and mosses and small plants growing wild upon it.
Who acts: I, you, country, mosses · What happens: have, see, thatch, grow · To what, where: doubt, old farmhouse, roof
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. 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, country, mosses), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 doubt | det |
| 4 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doubt | acl |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 have | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 been | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seen | cc |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 country | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 farmhouse | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 old | advmod |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 farmhouse | amod |
| 18 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 roof | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 roof | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 roof | det |
| 22 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 roof | amod |
| 23 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mosses | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mosses | cc |
| 26 | mosses | moss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 roof | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 plants | cc |
| 28 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 plants | amod |
| 29 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 mosses | conj |
| 30 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 mosses | acl |
| 31 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 growing | xcomp |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 growing | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no doubt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | no doubt not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | participle | the country not said here | a old farmhouse | with a thatched roof mosses and small plants | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer farmhouse=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | thatch | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | grow | gerund | mosses and small plants not said here | roof | wild property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location |
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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