Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 2
No doubt, they belong to the lieutenant who lives up stairs.
Who acts: doubt, lieutenant · What happens: belong, live up · To what, where: stairs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, lieutenant), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 doubt | det |
| 2 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 doubt | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 belong | nsubj |
| 5 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lieutenant | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lieutenant | det |
| 8 | lieutenant | lieutenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 belong | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lives | nsubj |
| 10 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lieutenant | acl:relcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lives | compound:prt |
| 12 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lives | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | no doubt | to the lieutenant | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live up | present | the lieutenant | stairs | 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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