Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 98
Empty are the barns and store-rooms, the cellars and cupboards; the servants decreased in number, and the mice multiplied.
Who acts: Empty barns, mice · What happens: be, decrease, multiply · To what, where: Empty barns, number
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 (Empty barns, mice), 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 | Empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 barns | amod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 barns | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 barns | det |
| 4 | barns | barn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 decreased | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rooms | cc |
| 6 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rooms | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 store | punct |
| 8 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 barns | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cellars | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cellars | det |
| 11 | cellars | cellar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 barns | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cupboards | cc |
| 13 | cupboards | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cellars | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 decreased | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 servants | det |
| 16 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 decreased | nsubj |
| 17 | decreased | decrease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 number | case |
| 19 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 decreased | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 multiplied | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 multiplied | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mice | det |
| 23 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 multiplied | nsubj |
| 24 | multiplied | multiply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 decreased | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 decreased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Empty barns and store rooms | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | decrease | past | the Empty barns and store rooms | number | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | multiply | past | the mice | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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