Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 51
And he went out of the garden and over the grass-plot of the yard, into the alder grove; there stood a little six-sided house, with a poultry-yard and a duck-yard.
Who acts: man · What happens: go out, stand, plot · To what, where: garden, alder grove, little sided house, yard
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 (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 plot | cc |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 plot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plot | det |
| 11 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plot | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 grass | punct |
| 13 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 garden | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 yard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 yard | det |
| 16 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plot | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grove | punct |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 grove | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 grove | det |
| 20 | alder | alder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grove | compound |
| 21 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 stood | punct |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 stood | expl |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 house | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 house | amod |
| 27 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 sided | nummod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 six | punct |
| 29 | sided | sided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 house | amod |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 yard | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 yard | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 yard | det |
| 34 | poultry | poultry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 yard | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 poultry | punct |
| 36 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 yard | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 yard | det |
| 39 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 yard | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 duck | punct |
| 41 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 yard | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | man | the garden and the grass plot of the yard | the alder grove | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past | man not said here | a little sided house | there | with a poultry yard and a duck yard | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | plot | the yard | nom plot «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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