Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 14
Once it had been a temple; a young sculptor now dwelt there.
Who acts: house, young sculptor · What happens: be, dwell · To what, where: temple
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: who acts (house, young sculptor), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 6 temple | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 temple | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 temple | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 temple | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 temple | det |
| 6 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dwelt | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 temple | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sculptor | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sculptor | amod |
| 10 | sculptor | sculptor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dwelt | nsubj |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 dwelt | advmod |
| 12 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 dwelt | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | house | a temple | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | a young sculptor | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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