Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 132
"He lived here, when a child, with his grandfather, in a house on the road to Grindelwald," remarked one of the sportsmen.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: live, remark · To what, where: child, house, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rudy), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 child | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 child | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grandfather | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 grandfather | case |
| 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 | 3 lived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 house | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Grindelwald | case |
| 21 | Grindelwald | Grindelwald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 road | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remarked | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 remarked | punct |
| 24 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lived | advcl |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 remarked | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 sportsmen | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sportsmen | det |
| 28 | sportsmen | sportsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | past | Rudy | a child | a house on the road to Grindelwald; here | with Rudy's grandfather | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with grandfather=Location | ||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | Rudy not said here | one of the sportsmen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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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