Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 64
"There was no one at home in the house, Only a kitten at play."
What happens: be · To what, where: one, home
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: 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 | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 home | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kitten | punct |
| 12 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 14 kitten | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kitten | det |
| 14 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | appos |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 play | case |
| 16 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kitten | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | no one | home in the house | 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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