Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 24

In those days there was no factory nor any town house, nothing but the great farm, with its scanty-bearing fields, in which could be seen a few herd of cattle, and one or two farm laborers.

Who acts: factory · What happens: be, see · To what, where: few herd, bearing fields

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: who acts (factory), 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 days	case
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 was	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 factory	det
7	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 house	cc
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 house	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	compound
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 factory	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nothing	punct
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 factory	appos
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 farm	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 farm	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 farm	amod
17	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fields	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	24 fields	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fields	nmod:poss
21	scanty	scanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bearing	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 scanty	punct
23	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fields	compound
24	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 was	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seen	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 seen	obl
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 seen	aux:pass
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fields	acl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 herd	det
32	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 herd	amod
33	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seen	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 cattle	case
35	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 herd	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 laborers	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 laborers	cc
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 laborers	nummod
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 two	cc
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 one	conj
41	farm	farm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 laborers	amod
42	laborers	laborer	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 seen	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no factory nor any town house			there	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	could · passive		a few herd of cattle		farm's bearing fields		one farm laborers obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: herd=Stimulus

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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