Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 32

The house belonged to the poor little boy who had stood on that night behind the door.

Who acts: house, poor little boy · What happens: belong, stand · To what, where: door

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: who acts (house, poor little boy), 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	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belonged	nsubj
3	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 boy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belonged	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 stood	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	aux
11	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 boy	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obl
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 belonged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	the house					to the poor little boy	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past · perfect	the poor little boy			the door	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=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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