Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 1

The little dwelling in which we lived was of clay, but the door-posts were columns of fluted marble, found near the spot on which it stood.

Who acts: we, little dwelling, door posts, dwelling · What happens: live, be, flute, find, stand · To what, where: little dwelling, columns, clay, spot

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, little dwelling, door posts, dwelling), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dwelling	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dwelling	amod
3	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clay	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	obl
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dwelling	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 clay	cop
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 clay	case
10	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 columns	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 columns	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 posts	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 posts	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 door	punct
16	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 columns	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 columns	cop
18	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clay	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 marble	case
20	fluted	flute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 marble	amod
21	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 columns	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 clay	acl
24	near	near	ADP	_	26 spot	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 spot	det
26	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 stood	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stood	nsubj
30	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 spot	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 clay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	we		the little dwelling		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
2	is	past	the little dwelling			of clay but columns	tree rules
3	is a	past	the door posts	columns		of fluted marble	tree rules
4	flute	participle					tree rules
5	find	participle		clay but columns not said here	the spot		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	stand	past	dwelling		the spot		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location

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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