Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 16
By the door stood a bee-hive, which was very useful.
Who acts: bee hive · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: bee hive
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 (bee hive), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hive | det |
| 6 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hive | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bee | punct |
| 8 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 useful | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 useful | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 useful | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 useful | advmod |
| 13 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hive | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a bee hive | by the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hive=Theme by door=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a bee hive | useful property | 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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