Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 2
In the country, close by the high road, stood a farmhouse; perhaps you have passed by and seen it yourself.
Who acts: you · What happens: stand, pass by, see · To what, where: farmhouse, country
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 country | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 country | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 close | punct |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 country | amod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 road | amod |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 country | punct |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 farmhouse | det |
| 13 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 passed | punct |
| 15 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 18 passed | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 passed | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 passed | aux |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 stood | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 passed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seen | cc |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 passed | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | obj |
| 23 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 seen | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a farmhouse | the country | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent farmhouse=Theme in country=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pass by | present · perfect | you | perhaps property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | participle | you not said here | farmhouse | 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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