Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 28
Here in the house there is secret love-making going on, which the father knows nothing about.
Who acts: father · What happens: be, make, go on, know · To what, where: house, nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 7 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Here | conj |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 love | punct |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Here | advcl |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 making | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 going | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knows | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 knows | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 father | det |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knows | nsubj |
| 17 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | parataxis |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 knows | obj |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 nothing | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the house | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | make | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | go on | gerund | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | know | present | the father | nothing | 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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