Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 9
Just such a farmhouse as this stood in a country lane; and in it dwelt an old couple, a peasant and his wife.
Who acts: this, dog · What happens: stand, dwell · To what, where: farmhouse, country lane, old couple
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 (this, 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 farmhouse | advmod |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 farmhouse | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 farmhouse | det |
| 4 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 stood | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lane | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lane | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lane | compound |
| 11 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 dwelt | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dwelt | cc |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 dwelt | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dwelt | nsubj |
| 16 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 couple | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 couple | amod |
| 19 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dwelt | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 peasant | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 peasant | det |
| 22 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 couple | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wife | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 couple | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | this | such farmhouse | a country lane | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lane=Location | |||
| 2 | dwell | past | dog | a old couple and a peasant and peasant's wife | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme couple=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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