Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 18

It was a real sorrow to her when she had to leave the little lane behind the playhouse, and move into the great street that lay a little farther off, and live there in a house where she had no opposite neighbors.

Who acts: theatre, stork, great street · What happens: be, have, leave, move, lie, live · To what, where: real sorrow, little lane, playhouse, great street, house, opposite neighbors

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (theatre, stork, great street), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sorrow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sorrow	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sorrow	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sorrow	amod
5	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sorrow	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 had	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 her	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 leave	mark
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lane	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lane	amod
15	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leave	obj
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 playhouse	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 playhouse	det
18	playhouse	playhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leave	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 move	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 move	cc
21	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 leave	parataxis
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 street	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 street	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 street	amod
25	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 move	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 street	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 little	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 farther	obl
30	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 lay	advmod
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 farther	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 live	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 live	cc
34	live	live	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 move	conj
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 live	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 house	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 house	det
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 live	obl
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 had	advmod
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 house	acl:relcl
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 neighbors	det
43	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 neighbors	amod
44	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 had	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sorrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	theatre	a real sorrow			tree rules
2	have	past	stork				tree rules
3	leave	to-infinitive	stork not said here	the little lane	the playhouse		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lane=Theme behind playhouse=Location
4	move	infinitive			the great street		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into street=Trajectory
5	lie	past	the great street			far property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	live	infinitive			a house; there		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
7	have	past	stork	no opposite neighbors			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=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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