Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 1

Far in the interior of the country lay an old baronial hall, and in it lived an old proprietor, who had two sons, which two young men thought themselves too clever by half.

Who acts: old proprietor, two young men · What happens: lie, live, have, think · To what, where: old baronial hall, interior, old proprietor, hall, two sons

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old proprietor, two young men), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 lay	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 interior	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 interior	det
4	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 interior	nmod
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hall	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hall	amod
11	baronial	baronial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hall	amod
12	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lived	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lived	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lived	obl
17	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lay	advcl
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 proprietor	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 proprietor	amod
20	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lived	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 proprietor	acl:relcl
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sons	nummod
25	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 thought	obj
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 men	nummod
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 thought	nsubj
31	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sons	acl:relcl
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 thought	obj
33	too	too	ADV	_	34 clever	advmod
34	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 thought	xcomp
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 half	case
36	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	34 clever	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		a old baronial hall	the interior of the country	far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hall=Theme
2	live	past		a old proprietor	hall		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme proprietor=Location
3	have	past	a old proprietor	two sons			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	two young men	two sons		clever property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Theme themselves=Attribute

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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