Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 1
The General lived in the grand first floor, and the porter lived in the cellar.
Who acts: General, porter · What happens: live · To what, where: grand first floor, cellar
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General, porter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 General | det |
| 2 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 floor | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 floor | amod |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 floor | amod |
| 8 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lived | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 porter | det |
| 12 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cellar | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cellar | det |
| 16 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the General | the grand first floor | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in floor=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the porter | the cellar | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cellar=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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