Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 1

"Near the shores of the great Belt, which is one of the straits that connect the Cattegat with the Baltic, stands an old mansion with thick red walls.

Who acts: great Belt, straits · What happens: be, connect, stand · To what, where: one, Cattegat, old mansion, shores

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great Belt, straits), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 stands	punct
2	Near	near	ADP	_	4 shores	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shores	det
4	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stands	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Belt	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Belt	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Belt	amod
8	Belt	Belt	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shores	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 one	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Belt	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 straits	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 straits	det
15	straits	strait	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 connect	nsubj
17	connect	connect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 straits	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Cattegat	det
19	Cattegat	Cattegat	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 connect	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 Baltic	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Baltic	det
22	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 connect	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shores	punct
24	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mansion	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mansion	amod
27	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stands	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 walls	case
29	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 walls	amod
30	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 walls	amod
31	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 mansion	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the great Belt	one		of the straits	tree rules
2	connect in a quote	present	the straits	the Cattegat		with the Baltic	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cattegat=Patient with baltic=Co-Patient
3	stand in a quote	present		a old mansion	the shores of the great Belt	with thick red walls	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mansion=Theme near shore=Destination

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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