Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 8

There is a yard-dog too, who barks at all corners.

Who acts: yard dog · What happens: be, bark

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 (yard dog), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
4	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 yard	punct
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
7	too	too	ADV	_	2 is	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 barks	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 barks	nsubj
10	barks	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 corners	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 corners	det
13	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 barks	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a yard dog			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bark	present						at all corners	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at corner=Stimulus

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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