Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 11
She lived in the little house by the wayside, where the gate is that she opened for those who rode and drove.
Who acts: doctor · What happens: live, be, ride, drive · To what, where: little house, gate
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 wayside | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wayside | det |
| 9 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 where | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 wayside | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gate | det |
| 13 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 where | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 opened | cop |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 opened | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 opened | nsubj |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gate | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 those | case |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 opened | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 rode | nsubj |
| 21 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 those | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drove | cc |
| 23 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 rode | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | doctor | the little house | by the wayside | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | doctor | the gate not said here | for the gate; open property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ride | past | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | drive | past | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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