Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 118
In the farm-house lived two young students; the one was a poet and the other a scientific searcher into the secrets of nature.
Who acts: one, other · What happens: live, be, searcher · To what, where: two young students, farm house, poet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, other), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 3 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 farm | punct |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 students | nummod |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 students | amod |
| 9 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 poet | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poet | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 poet | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 poet | det |
| 15 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 searcher | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 searcher | nsubj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 searcher | det |
| 20 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 searcher | amod |
| 21 | searcher | searcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poet | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 secrets | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 secrets | det |
| 24 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 nature | case |
| 26 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 secrets | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | two young students | the farm house | into the secrets of nature | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme student=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the one | a poet and a scientific searcher | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | searcher | the other | tree rules |
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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