Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 10

But in the fisherman's cottage among the sand-hills near Hunsby, there lived a little scion of the rich Spanish family.

What happens: live · To what, where: little scion, cottage

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 lived	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 cottage	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fisherman	det
4	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cottage	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fisherman	case
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	obl
7	among	among	ADP	_	11 hills	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hills	det
9	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hills	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sand	punct
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cottage	nmod
12	near	near	ADP	_	13 Hunsby	case
13	Hunsby	Hunsby	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 hills	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cottage	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 lived	expl
16	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 scion	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 scion	amod
19	scion	scion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 family	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 family	det
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 family	amod
23	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 family	amod
24	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scion	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a little scion of the rich Spanish family		the fisherman's cottage among the sand hills near Hunsby; there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme scion=Location

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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