Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 117
These houses all stood on the same side of the road, so that the fresh, green meadows, in which were cows grazing, with bells on their necks, were not hidden.
Who acts: houses, cows · What happens: stand, be, graze, not hide · To what, where: same side, cows, bells, necks
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 (houses, cows), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 houses | det |
| 2 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 meadows | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 19 meadows | case |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 meadows | det |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 meadows | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fresh | punct |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 meadows | amod |
| 19 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cows | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 24 cows | det |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cows | cop |
| 24 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 meadows | conj |
| 25 | grazing | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 cows | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bells | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 bells | case |
| 28 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 grazing | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 necks | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 necks | nmod:poss |
| 31 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bells | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hidden | punct |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 hidden | aux:pass |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 hidden | advmod |
| 35 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | this houses | the same side of the road | so the fresh green meadows and which cows; all property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | this houses not said here | which cows | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | graze | gerund | which cows not said here | bells | bells's necks | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme | |||
| 4 | not hide | past · passive | this houses not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V» |
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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