Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 101

Yonder, behind the fir-trees, still stood his grandfather's house, his mother's father, but strangers dwelt in it now.

Who acts: strangers · What happens: stand, dwell · To what, where: house, fir trees, road

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strangers), 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	Yonder	yonder	ADV	_	10 stood	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yonder	punct
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
5	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 fir	punct
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trees	punct
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 stood	advmod
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grandfather	nmod:poss
12	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 grandfather	case
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 father	punct
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 mother	case
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dwelt	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 dwelt	cc
22	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dwelt	nsubj
23	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stood	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dwelt	obl
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 dwelt	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		house's grandfather's house		the fir trees	still	house's mother's father obl; yonder property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme behind tree=Destination
2	dwell	past	strangers			road	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location

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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