Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 164
In that place was an old dry well, now nothing but a hole.
Who acts: place · What happens: be · To what, where: old dry
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 (place), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 place | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dry | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dry | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dry | amod |
| 7 | dry | dry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 dry | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nothing | punct |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 nothing | advmod |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 dry | appos |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 hole | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nothing | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that place | a old dry | well property | 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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