Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 245
There, where once had stood the narrow lane containing the ruins of the temple, a nunnery was now built.
Who acts: narrow lane · What happens: stand, contain, build, ruin · To what, where: narrow lane, ruins, nunnery, 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 (narrow lane), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 stood | advmod |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 stood | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | aux |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lane | det |
| 8 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lane | amod |
| 9 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obj |
| 10 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 lane | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ruins | det |
| 12 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 containing | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 temple | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 temple | det |
| 15 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ruins | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 built | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 nunnery | det |
| 18 | nunnery | nunnery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 built | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 built | aux:pass |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 built | advmod |
| 21 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stood | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · perfect | the narrow lane | there | once property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lane=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | the narrow lane not said here | the ruins of the temple | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ruin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | past · passive | a nunnery | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | ruin | the temple | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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