Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 1
Poultry Meg was the only person who lived in the new stately dwelling that had been built for the fowls and ducks belonging to the manor house.
Who acts: Poultry, only person, ducks · What happens: be, live, build, belong · To what, where: only person, new stately dwelling
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poultry, only person, ducks), 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 | Poultry | Poultry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 person | nsubj |
| 2 | Meg | Meg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Poultry | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 person | amod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 dwelling | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dwelling | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dwelling | amod |
| 12 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dwelling | amod |
| 13 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 built | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 built | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 built | aux:pass |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 dwelling | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 fowls | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fowls | det |
| 20 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 built | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ducks | cc |
| 22 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fowls | conj |
| 23 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 ducks | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 26 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | compound |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 belonging | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Poultry | the only person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the only person | the new stately dwelling | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dwelling=Location | ||||
| 3 | build | past · perfect · passive | the new stately dwelling | for the fowls and ducks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for fowl=Asset | ||||
| 4 | belong | gerund | ducks not said here | to the manor house | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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