Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 76
They maintained that the moon alone was inhabited, and was really the heavenly body in which the old world people lived.
Who acts: inhabitants, old world people · What happens: maintain, inhabit, be, live · To what, where: moon, heavenly body
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 (inhabitants, old world people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 maintained | nsubj |
| 2 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 inhabited | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inhabited | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 moon | advmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 8 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 maintained | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 body | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 body | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 body | cop |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 body | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 14 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 body | amod |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inhabited | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lived | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 people | compound |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lived | nsubj |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 body | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 maintained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | past | inhabitants = inhabitant | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | inhabit | past · passive | the moon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the heavenly body | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | past | the old world people | the heavenly body | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 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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