Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 163
I am old Margaret, that lived in the house on the dyke."
Who acts: I, old Margaret · What happens: be, live · To what, where: old Margaret, house
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 (I, old Margaret), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Margaret | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Margaret | cop |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Margaret | amod |
| 4 | Margaret | Margaret | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Margaret | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 dyke | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dyke | det |
| 13 | dyke | dyke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Margaret | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Margaret | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | old Margaret | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | old Margaret | the house | on the dyke | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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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