Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 31
An old house stood there; it was in the large town with its busy traffic.
Who acts: old house, house · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: large town
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 house, house), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 house | amod |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 town | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 town | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 town | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 town | amod |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 traffic | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 traffic | nmod:poss |
| 15 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 traffic | amod |
| 16 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 town | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a old house | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | house | the large town | with house's busy traffic | tree rules |
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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