Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 96
They reside under the floor of your mother's store-room, and that must be a fine dwelling-place."
Who acts: ducks, that · What happens: reside, be · To what, where: floor, fine dwelling place
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ducks, that), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reside | nsubj |
| 2 | reside | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reside | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 room | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 mother | case |
| 10 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 room | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 store | punct |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floor | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 place | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 place | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 place | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 place | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 place | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 19 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 place | amod |
| 20 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 dwelling | punct |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reside | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reside | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 reside | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reside | present | ducks = duck | the floor of your mother's store room | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under floor=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | must | that | a fine dwelling place | 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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