Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 71

People call it an out-of-the-way corner; but it is a good warm chimney-corner, and its windows open toward every part of the world."

Who acts: People, almanack, windows · What happens: call, be, open · To what, where: almanack, good warm chimney corner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, almanack, windows), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	nsubj
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 call	obj
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 corner	det
5	out	out	ADP	_	11 way	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 out	punct
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 way	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 of	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 the	punct
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 corner	compound
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 corner	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 corner	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 corner	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 corner	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 corner	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 corner	amod
19	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 corner	amod
20	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 corner	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 chimney	punct
22	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 open	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 open	cc
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 windows	nmod:poss
26	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 open	nsubj
27	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	conj
28	toward	toward	ADP	_	30 part	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 part	det
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 open	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 call	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	present	People	almanack		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	is a	present	almanack	a good warm chimney corner		tree rules
3	open	present	almanack's windows		toward every part of the world	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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