Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 1

They stopped at a little hut; it was very mean looking; the roof sloped nearly down to the ground, and the door was so low that the family had to creep in on their hands and knees, when they went in and out.

Who acts: They, hut, roof, door, family, knees · What happens: stop, look, slope, be, have, creep in · To what, where: little hut, hands

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, hut, roof, door), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 hut	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hut	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hut	amod
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looking	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looking	aux
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 mean	advmod
11	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looking	compound
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stopped	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sloped	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roof	det
15	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sloped	nsubj
16	sloped	slope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 down	advmod
18	down	down	ADV	_	16 sloped	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sloped	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 low	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 low	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 door	det
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 low	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 low	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 low	advmod
28	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sloped	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 had	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 family	det
31	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 low	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 creep	mark
34	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
35	in	in	ADP	_	34 creep	obl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 hands	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hands	nmod:poss
38	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 creep	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 knees	cc
40	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 hands	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 went	punct
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 went	advmod
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 went	nsubj
44	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 hands	acl:relcl
45	in	in	ADV	_	44 went	advmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 out	cc
47	out	out	ADV	_	45 in	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	They	a little hut		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hut=Location
2	look	past · progressive	hut			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	slope	past	the roof		to the ground; down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the door		low property	tree rules
5	have	past	the family			tree rules
6	creep in	to-infinitive	the family not said here	their hands and knees		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory
7	go	past	knees = knee			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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