Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 241

The family is extinct, the house has been pulled down, and where it stood is now the stately poultry-house, with gilded weathercocks, and the old Poultry Meg.

Who acts: family, house · What happens: be, pull down, stand, gild · To what, where: house, stately poultry house

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 (family, 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 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 extinct	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 extinct	cop
4	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pulled	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pulled	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 pulled	aux:pass
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 extinct	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 pulled	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stood	cc
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 stood	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stood	nsubj
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 extinct	conj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 house	cop
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 house	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
20	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 house	amod
21	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 house	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 poultry	punct
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 weathercocks	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 weathercocks	case
26	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 weathercocks	amod
27	weathercocks	weathercock	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 house	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Meg	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Meg	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Meg	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Meg	amod
32	Poultry	Poultry	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Meg	compound
33	Meg	Meg	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 extinct	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 extinct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the family			the old Poultry Meg obl; extinct property	tree rules
2	pull down	present · perfect · passive		the house			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	stand	past	house				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	house not said here	the stately poultry house and gilded weathercocks	now		tree rules
5	gild	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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