Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 17
There was an old mansion, it is still there; it did not belong to Mrs. Meta Mogen, it belonged to another old noble family.
Who acts: old mansion, mansion · What happens: be, not belong, belong · To what, where: Mrs.
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old mansion, mansion), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mansion | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mansion | amod |
| 5 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 there | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 there | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | cop |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 there | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 was | parataxis |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 belong | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 belong | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 belong | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 belong | advmod |
| 15 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Mrs. | case |
| 17 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 belong | obl |
| 18 | Meta | Meta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mrs. | flat |
| 19 | Mogen | Mogen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mrs. | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 belonged | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 belonged | nsubj |
| 22 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 family | case |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 family | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 family | amod |
| 26 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 family | amod |
| 27 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 belonged | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a old mansion | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | mansion | still | there property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not belong | past · do-support | mansion | Mrs. | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | belong | past | mansion | to another old noble family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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