Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 25
Here in this neighborhood, there lives a family of people who have been so sensible as to place three or four flower-pots against the wall in the court-yard, so that the openings are all turned inward, and the bottom of each points outward.
Who acts: people, bottom · What happens: live, be, turn, point · To what, where: family, openings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, bottom), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lives | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 neighborhood | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 neighborhood | det |
| 4 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 lives | expl |
| 7 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 family | det |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lives | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 family | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sensible | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sensible | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 sensible | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 sensible | advmod |
| 16 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sensible | obl |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 place | flat |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 pots | cc |
| 22 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pots | nummod |
| 23 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pots | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 flower | punct |
| 25 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 place | conj |
| 26 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 wall | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wall | det |
| 28 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pots | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 yard | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 yard | det |
| 31 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 yard | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 court | punct |
| 33 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wall | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 turned | punct |
| 35 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 41 turned | mark |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 turned | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 openings | det |
| 38 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 turned | aux:pass |
| 40 | all | all | ADV | _ | 41 turned | advmod |
| 41 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lives | advcl |
| 42 | inward | inward | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 turned | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 points | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 points | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 bottom | det |
| 46 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 points | nsubj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 each | case |
| 48 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 bottom | nmod |
| 49 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 turned | conj |
| 50 | outward | outward | ADV | _ | 49 points | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a family of people | here; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme family=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | people | as place or four flower pots against the wall in the court yard; sensible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | present · passive | the openings | all, inward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | point | present | the bottom of each | outward property | vn wink-40.3.1 «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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