Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 6

In the room with the good housewife sat her two sons; they were still small, but had great thoughts.

Who acts: sons · What happens: sit, be, have · To what, where: housewife, room, great thoughts

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons), 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	_	3 room	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 room	det
3	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 housewife	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 housewife	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 housewife	amod
7	housewife	housewife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 room	nmod
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	obj
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 sons	nummod
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sat	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 small	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 small	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 small	cop
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 small	advmod
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sat	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thoughts	amod
21	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past		housewife	the room with the good housewife			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent she=Theme son=Destination
2	is	past	sons = son			still	small property	tree rules
3	have	past		great thoughts				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient

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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