Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 10

On both sides of the mountain-path stand these little wooden houses; and, as within, there are many children and many mouths to feed, each house has its own little potato garden.

Who acts: these, house · What happens: stand, house, be, feed, have · To what, where: sides, many children, own little potato garden

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, house), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 sides	case
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sides	det
3	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stand	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 path	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 path	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 mountain	punct
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sides	nmod
9	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 houses	nsubj
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 houses	amod
12	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 houses	amod
13	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stand	parataxis
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 children	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 are	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	as	as	ADP	_	15 and	advmod
18	within	within	ADP	_	17 as	fixed
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 are	expl
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 children	cop
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 children	amod
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stand	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 mouths	cc
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mouths	amod
26	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 children	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 feed	mark
28	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stand	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 has	punct
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 house	det
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	nsubj
32	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stand	conj
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 garden	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 garden	amod
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 garden	amod
36	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 garden	compound
37	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	present			both sides of the mountain path	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
2	house		these			tree rules
3	is a	present		many children and many mouths		tree rules
4	feed	to-infinitive				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	have	present	each house	path's own little potato garden		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient

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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