Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 76
An old cowherd lived in the courtyard, and was the only other inhabitant of the place.
Who acts: old cowherd · What happens: live, be · To what, where: courtyard, only other inhabitant
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 (old cowherd), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cowherd | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cowherd | amod |
| 3 | cowherd | cowherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 courtyard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 courtyard | det |
| 7 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 inhabitant | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 inhabitant | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 inhabitant | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 inhabitant | det |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 inhabitant | amod |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 inhabitant | amod |
| 14 | inhabitant | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 inhabitant | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a old cowherd | the courtyard | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the only other inhabitant | of the place | tree rules |
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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