Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 44
Was it in their house, or a neighbor's?
What happens: be · To what, where: house
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: 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 house | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Was | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 neighbor | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 neighbor | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 neighbor | det |
| 9 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 neighbor | case |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | shutters's house | 's a neighbor | 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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