Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 12

The great dog by the yard gate of a nobleman's mansion sits proudly on the top of his kennel when the sun shines, and barks at every one that passes; but if it rains, he creeps into his house, and there he is warm and dry.

Who acts: great dog, sun, one, it · What happens: sit, shine, bark, pass, rain, creep · To what, where: top, house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great dog, sun, one, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sits	nsubj
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
6	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gate	compound
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 mansion	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nobleman	det
10	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mansion	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 nobleman	case
12	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gate	nmod
13	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	13 sits	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 top	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 top	det
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sits	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 kennel	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 kennel	nmod:poss
20	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 top	nmod
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 shines	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shines	nsubj
24	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 kennel	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 barks	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 barks	cc
27	barks	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sits	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 one	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 barks	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 passes	nsubj
32	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 one	acl:relcl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 creeps	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 creeps	cc
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 rains	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 rains	nsubj
37	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 creeps	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rains	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 creeps	nsubj
40	creeps	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sits	conj
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 house	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 house	nmod:poss
43	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 creeps	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 warm	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 warm	cc
46	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	49 warm	expl
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 warm	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 warm	cop
49	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sits	conj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 dry	cc
51	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 warm	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the great dog by the yard gate of a nobleman's mansion	the top of dog's kennel	proudly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location
2	shine	present	the sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bark	present	the great dog by the yard gate of a nobleman's mansion not said here		at every one	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at one=Stimulus
4	pass	present	every one			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rain a condition, not said to happen	present	it			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
6	creep	present	sun	dog's house		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination
7	is	present	sun	there	warm property	tree rules
8	be		sun not said here			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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