Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 15

One house only, which was just opposite to the one in which the foreign learned man lived, formed a contrast to all this, for it was quite still; and yet somebody dwelt there, for flowers stood in the balcony, blooming beautifully in the hot sun; and this could not have been unless they had been watered carefully.

Who acts: One house, man, house, somebody, flowers · What happens: be, learn, live, form, dwell, stand · To what, where: one, contrast, this, balcony, hot sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One house, man, house, somebody), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 house	nummod
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 learned	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 house	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 opposite	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 opposite	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 opposite	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 opposite	advmod
8	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 house	amod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 one	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opposite	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 foreign	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 foreign	det
15	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	acl:relcl
16	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lived	nsubj
18	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 learned	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 formed	punct
20	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 learned	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 contrast	det
22	contrast	contrast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 formed	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 this	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 this	det:predet
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 formed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 still	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 still	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 still	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 still	cop
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 still	advmod
31	still	still	ADV	_	20 formed	advmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 dwelt	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 dwelt	cc
34	yet	yet	ADV	_	36 dwelt	advmod
35	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 dwelt	nsubj
36	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 learned	parataxis
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 dwelt	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stood	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 stood	mark
40	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 stood	nsubj
41	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 dwelt	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 balcony	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 balcony	det
44	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stood	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 blooming	punct
46	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 stood	advcl
47	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	46 blooming	advmod
48	in	in	ADP	_	51 sun	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 sun	det
50	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 sun	amod
51	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 blooming	obl
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	63 watered	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 watered	cc
54	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	63 watered	nsubj:pass
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 watered	aux
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 watered	advmod
57	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 watered	aux
58	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	63 watered	aux:pass
59	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	63 watered	mark
60	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 watered	nsubj:pass
61	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 watered	aux
62	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	63 watered	aux:pass
63	watered	water	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 learned	conj
64	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	63 watered	advmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	One house		the one			opposite property	tree rules
2	learn	past	One house						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	live	past	man						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	form	past	One house not said here	a contrast	this				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent contrast=Theme to this=Recipient
5	is	past	house					still property	tree rules
6	dwell	past	somebody			there	yet		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	stand	past	flowers			the balcony			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in balcony=Location
8	bloom	gerund	flowers not said here			the hot sun		beautifully property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location
9	not water a condition, not said to happen	could · perfect · passive		this				carefully property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=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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