Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 209
In the forest by the river Gudenau, not far from the heath, and beneath the ridge of land, stood the little farm, newly painted and whitewashed.
What happens: stand, paint, whitewash · To what, where: little farm, forest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 forest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Gudenau | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Gudenau | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Gudenau | compound |
| 7 | Gudenau | Gudenau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forest | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heath | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 far | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 heath | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 heath | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heath | det |
| 13 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forest | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ridge | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ridge | cc |
| 16 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 18 ridge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ridge | det |
| 18 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forest | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ridge | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 forest | punct |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 farm | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 farm | amod |
| 25 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 painted | punct |
| 27 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 28 painted | advmod |
| 28 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 stood | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 whitewashed | cc |
| 30 | whitewashed | whitewash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 painted | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the little farm | the forest by the river Gudenau and the heath and the ridge of land | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent farm=Theme in forest=Destination | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | newly property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | whitewash | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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