Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 125

The poor woman built herself a little house--it was small and narrow, and the window was quite crooked, the door too low, and the straw roof might have been better thatched.

Who acts: poor woman, house, window · What happens: build, be, thatch · To what, where: woman, straw roof

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor woman, house, window), 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	3 woman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	nsubj
4	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 built	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 small	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 small	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 small	cop
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 built	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 narrow	cc
14	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 small	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 crooked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 crooked	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 window	det
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crooked	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 crooked	cop
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 crooked	advmod
21	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 small	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 door	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crooked	obl
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 low	advmod
26	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 door	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thatched	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thatched	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 roof	det
30	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 roof	compound
31	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thatched	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 thatched	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 thatched	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 thatched	aux:pass
35	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 thatched	advmod
36	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 built	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	past	the poor woman	woman		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary house=Product
2	is	past	house		small property	tree rules
3	be		house not said here			tree rules
4	is	past	the window		the door obl; crooked property	tree rules
5	thatch	might · perfect · passive		the straw roof	well 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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