Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 3
Down below dwelt a family of the Toad race.
What happens: dwell · To what, where: family
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: 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 3 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | below | below | ADV | _ | 3 dwelt | advmod |
| 3 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dwelt | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 race | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 8 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 race | compound |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 family | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a family of the Toad race | below, down property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme family=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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