Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 97
The church was large and handsome, and had been built centuries before by Scotchmen and Dutchmen; it stood some little way out of the town.
Who acts: church · What happens: be, build, stand · To what, where: little way, town
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 (church), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 church | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 large | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 large | cop |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 handsome | cc |
| 6 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 large | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 built | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 built | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 built | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 built | aux:pass |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 large | conj |
| 12 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 built | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 Scotchmen | case |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Scotchmen | case |
| 15 | Scotchmen | Scotchmen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 built | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Dutchmen | cc |
| 17 | Dutchmen | Dutchmen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Scotchmen | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 large | conj |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 way | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 way | amod |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 town | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 town | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 town | det |
| 27 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the church | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the church not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | build | past · perfect · passive | the church not said here | before Scotchmen and Dutchmen; century | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | church | some little way | the town | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme out town=Destination |
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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