Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 25
Down in the valley, near Bex, among the great walnut-trees, by the side of a little rushing mountain-stream, lived a rich miller.
Who acts: valley · What happens: rush, live · To what, where: rich miller
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 (valley), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 4 valley | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 valley | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 valley | det |
| 4 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bex | punct |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 Bex | case |
| 7 | Bex | Bex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 valley | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trees | punct |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 trees | amod |
| 12 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trees | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 walnut | punct |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Bex | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 side | punct |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trees | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 stream | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stream | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stream | amod |
| 22 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 stream | amod |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stream | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 mountain | punct |
| 25 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 side | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 valley | punct |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 miller | det |
| 29 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 miller | amod |
| 30 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lived | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | live | past | the valley | a rich miller | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme miller=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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