Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 1
In the high-road which led through a wood stood a solitary farm-house; the road, in fact, ran right through its yard.
Who acts: high road · What happens: lead, stand, run · To what, where: wood, solitary farm house, high road
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high road), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 road | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 high | punct |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 led | nsubj |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 road | acl:relcl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 13 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 14 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 farm | punct |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 road | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fact | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fact | case |
| 22 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 road | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ran | punct |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stood | conj |
| 25 | right | right | ADV | _ | 28 yard | advmod |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 yard | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 yard | nmod:poss |
| 28 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the high road | a wood | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through wood=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a solitary farm house | the high road | the road and fact obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in road=Destination | |||
| 3 | run | past | through fact's yard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through yard=Trajectory |
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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