Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 106
Right in front, in the very best place, sat a stout butcher, with a great bull-dog by his side who seemed very much inclined to bite.
Who acts: side · What happens: sit, seem, bite · To what, where: stout butcher, front
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (side), 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 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 3 front | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 front | case |
| 3 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 place | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 best | advmod |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 front | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 front | punct |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 butcher | det |
| 13 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 butcher | amod |
| 14 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dog | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 dog | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dog | amod |
| 19 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dog | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 bull | punct |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 side | nmod:poss |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dog | nmod |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 seemed | nsubj |
| 26 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 side | acl:relcl |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 inclined | advmod |
| 29 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 seemed | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 bite | mark |
| 31 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 inclined | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a stout butcher | front and the best place | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent butcher=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | dog's side | inclined property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bite | to-infinitive | dog's side not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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