Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 56
Indeed, well-to-do and distinguished people lived here; it was the dwelling of the baron and his family.
Who acts: you, people, table · What happens: do, distinguished, live, be · To what, where: dwelling
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people, table), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 do | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 do | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 do | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 distinguished | cc |
| 9 | distinguished | distinguished | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | conj |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 distinguished | ccomp |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lived | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 dwelling | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dwelling | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dwelling | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dwelling | det |
| 17 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 baron | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 baron | det |
| 20 | baron | baron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dwelling | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 family | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 family | nmod:poss |
| 23 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 baron | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | indeed, well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | distinguished | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | past | people | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | table | the dwelling | of the baron and baron's family | 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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