Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 15
The house in which she dwelt was small and neat, but dreary to behold, for there were no flowers near it--no trees.
Who acts: gate, house, flowers · What happens: dwell, be · To what, where: house
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 (gate, house, flowers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 small | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 dwelt | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dwelt | nsubj |
| 6 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 house | acl:relcl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 small | cop |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 neat | cc |
| 10 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 small | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dreary | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 dreary | cc |
| 13 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 small | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 behold | case |
| 15 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 13 dreary | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 were | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 were | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 small | parataxis |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 flowers | det |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flowers | nmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 trees | punct |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 trees | det |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flowers | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | gate | the house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the house | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the house not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | the house not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | past | no flowers near house and no trees | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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