Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 2
Well, just such a cupboard stood in a parlor, and had been left to the family as a legacy by the great-grandmother.
Who acts: cupboard, great grandmother · What happens: stand, leave · To what, where: parlor, family
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cupboard, great grandmother), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 cupboard | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 cupboard | advmod |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 cupboard | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cupboard | det |
| 6 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 parlor | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 parlor | det |
| 10 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 left | aux:pass |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 family | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 family | det |
| 18 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 legacy | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 legacy | det |
| 21 | legacy | legacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 grandmother | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grandmother | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 grandmother | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 great | punct |
| 26 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | such cupboard | a parlor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in parlor=Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the great grandmother | the family | as a legacy | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to family=Initial_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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