Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 25
"There are the good people below, playing at 'changing houses.'
Who acts: good people · What happens: be, play, change · To what, where: houses
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good people), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 playing | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 7 | below | below | ADV | _ | 3 are | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 playing | punct |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 changing | mark |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 changing | punct |
| 12 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 playing | advcl |
| 13 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 changing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 playing | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | the good people | there | below property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | play in a quote | gerund | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | change in a quote | gerund | houses | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
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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