Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 2
And there was also a regular huckster, to whom the house belonged, and who occupied the ground floor.
Who acts: house · What happens: belong, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 occupied | cop |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 huckster | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 huckster | det |
| 6 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 huckster | amod |
| 7 | huckster | huckster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whom | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 was | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belonged | nsubj |
| 13 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 whom | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 occupied | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 occupied | cc |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 occupied | nsubj |
| 17 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 floor | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 floor | compound |
| 20 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 occupied | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | the house | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | occupy property | tree rules |
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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