Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 48
All of us, excepting the water-bucket, which is sometimes taken into the courtyard, live here together within these four walls.
Who acts: All · What happens: except, take, live · To what, where: water bucket, courtyard
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 excepting | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 us | case |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 excepting | punct |
| 5 | excepting | except | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bucket | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bucket | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 water | punct |
| 9 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 excepting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 taken | advmod |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bucket | acl:relcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 courtyard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 courtyard | det |
| 17 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 live | punct |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 excepting | conj |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 live | advmod |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 live | advmod |
| 22 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 walls | case |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 walls | det |
| 24 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 walls | nummod |
| 25 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 live | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 excepting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | except | gerund | All | the water bucket | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present · passive | the water bucket | the courtyard | sometimes property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into courtyard=Destination | |||
| 3 | live | present | All not said here | here | within this four walls; together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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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