Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 105
He drew a Chinese house, with bells hanging from every one of sixteen stories.
Who acts: George, bells · What happens: draw, hang · To what, where: Chinese house
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 (George, bells), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bells | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bells | case |
| 8 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drew | obl |
| 9 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 bells | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hanging | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stories | case |
| 14 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 stories | nummod |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | George | a Chinese house | with bells | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | hang | gerund | bells not said here | from every one of sixteen stories | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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