Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 4

Their parents lived opposite to each other in two garrets, where the roofs of neighboring houses projected out towards each other and the water-pipe ran between them.

Who acts: parents, roofs · What happens: live, neighbor, project out, run · To what, where: opposite, two garrets, neighboring houses

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, roofs), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 lived	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 garrets	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 garrets	nummod
10	garrets	garret	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ran	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 ran	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roofs	det
14	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ran	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 houses	case
16	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 houses	amod
17	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 roofs	nmod
18	projected	project	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 houses	acl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 projected	compound:prt
20	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 each	case
21	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	18 projected	obl
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 each	fixed
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pipe	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pipe	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pipe	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 water	punct
27	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 houses	conj
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 garrets	acl:relcl
29	between	between	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ran	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	children's parents	opposite	two garrets	to each	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme opposite=Location
2	neighbor	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	project out	participle		neighboring houses and the water pipe not said here		towards each	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	past	the roofs of neighboring houses and the water pipe			between children = child	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Trajectory

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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