Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 16
Halfway up the hill stood the boarding-house in which Babette's godmother resided.
Who acts: hill, godmother · What happens: stand, reside · To what, where: boarding house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hill, godmother), 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 | Halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 stood | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hill | det |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 7 | boarding | boarding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 boarding | punct |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 resided | obl |
| 12 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Babette | case |
| 14 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 resided | nsubj |
| 15 | resided | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 house | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the hill | the boarding house | halfway property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reside | past | Babette's godmother | the boarding house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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