Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 3
We were staying in the country at a gentleman's seat, where it happened that the master was absent for a few days.
Who acts: We, it, master · What happens: stay, happen, be · To what, where: country
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, it, master), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 staying | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 staying | aux |
| 3 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 country | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 staying | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 seat | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gentleman | det |
| 9 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 gentleman | case |
| 11 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 staying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 happened | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 happened | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 staying | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 absent | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 master | det |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 absent | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 absent | cop |
| 20 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 happened | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 days | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 days | det |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 days | amod |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 absent | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 staying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past · progressive | We | the country | at a gentleman's seat | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | |||
| 2 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the master | day | absent 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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