Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 27
There stood a splendid house in the town, filled with all kinds of beautiful and valuable objects.
What happens: stand, fill · To what, where: splendid house, town
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 stood | expl |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 filled | punct |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stood | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 kinds | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 kinds | det |
| 13 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 filled | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 objects | case |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 objects | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 valuable | cc |
| 17 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beautiful | conj |
| 18 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kinds | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a splendid house | the town; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in town=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fill | participle | with all kinds of beautiful objects | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with kind=Instrument |
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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