Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 88
It was a lonely, desolate life in the old manor house.
Who acts: It · What happens: be, desolate · To what, where: life, old manor 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 (It), 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 | 4 lonely | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lonely | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lonely | det |
| 4 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 desolate | punct |
| 6 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lonely | csubj |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 desolate | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 11 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | compound |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 desolate | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lonely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | lonely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desolate | infinitive | life | the old manor house | 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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