Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 19
The peasant in the clay hut close by the knightly house had a son named Soren, of the same age as the gracious little lady.
Who acts: peasant, knightly house · What happens: hut, have, name · To what, where: son
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 (peasant, knightly house), 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 peasant | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hut | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 clay | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clay | det |
| 5 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 peasant | nmod |
| 6 | hut | hut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 hut | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 10 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hut | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 son | acl |
| 16 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 named | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 age | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 age | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 age | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 age | amod |
| 21 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 lady | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lady | det |
| 24 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lady | amod |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lady | amod |
| 26 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 age | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hut | present | the peasant in the clay | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the knightly house | a son | of the same age as the gracious little lady | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 3 | name | participle | a son not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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