Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 26
His dwelling-house was a large building, three storeys high, with little turrets.
Who acts: dwelling house · What happens: be · To what, where: large building
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 (dwelling 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 house | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 dwelling | punct |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 building | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 building | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 building | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 building | amod |
| 8 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 storeys | punct |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 storeys | nummod |
| 11 | storeys | storey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 high | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 building | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turrets | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 turrets | case |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 turrets | amod |
| 16 | turrets | turret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 building | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 building | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Rudy's dwelling house | a large building | with little turrets | tree rules |
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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