Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 41
Out in the country lies an old manor house, with red walls, pointed gables, and a red flag that floats on the tower.
Who acts: country, red flag · What happens: lie, point, float · To what, where: old manor house, tower
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, red flag), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 4 country | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 country | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | nsubj |
| 5 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 8 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walls | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 walls | case |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 walls | amod |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 house | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gables | punct |
| 15 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 gables | amod |
| 16 | gables | gable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 walls | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flag | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flag | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 flag | det |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flag | amod |
| 21 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 floats | nsubj |
| 23 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 flag | acl:relcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 tower | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tower | det |
| 26 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 floats | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the country | a old manor house | with red walls and pointed gables | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme | |||
| 2 | point | participle | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | float | present | a red flag | the tower | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tower=Trajectory |
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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