Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 13
"In a narrow lane stood an old house.
What happens: stand · To what, where: old house, narrow lane
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 lane | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lane | det |
| 4 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lane | amod |
| 5 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | past | a old house | a narrow lane | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in lane=Destination |
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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