Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 2
It stood there where once the old knightly building had stood with its tower, its pointed gables, its moat, and its drawbridge.
Who acts: dwelling, old knightly building · What happens: stand · To what, where: drawbridge
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 (dwelling, old knightly building), 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 | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 stood | advmod |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 stood | advmod |
| 5 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 11 stood | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 building | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 building | amod |
| 8 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 building | amod |
| 9 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stood | aux |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 stood | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tower | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gables | punct |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 gables | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gables | amod |
| 18 | gables | gable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 moat | punct |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 moat | nmod:poss |
| 21 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gables | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drawbridge | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drawbridge | cc |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 drawbridge | nmod:poss |
| 25 | drawbridge | drawbridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | dwelling | dwelling's drawbridge | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stand | past · perfect | the old knightly building | with dwelling's tower | 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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