Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 48
But the houses did not stir from their places.
Who acts: houses · What happens: not stir · To what, where: places
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (houses), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 stir | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 houses | det |
| 3 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stir | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stir | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 stir | advmod |
| 6 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 places | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 places | nmod:poss |
| 9 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stir | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stir | past · do-support | the houses | Houses's places | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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