Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 87

But the guide-book does not speak of Babette's quiet life afterwards with her father, not at the mill--strangers dwell there now--but in a pretty house in a row near the station.

Who acts: guide book, strangers · What happens: not speak, dwell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guide book, strangers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 speak	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
3	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 book	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 guide	punct
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speak	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 speak	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 speak	advmod
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 life	case
10	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 life	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Babette	case
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 life	amod
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speak	obl
14	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	8 speak	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 father	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speak	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mill	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 mill	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 mill	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mill	det
22	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 father	conj
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 dwell	punct
24	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dwell	nsubj
25	dwell	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 speak	parataxis
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 dwell	advmod
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 dwell	advmod
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 house	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 house	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 house	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 house	det
32	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 house	amod
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dwell	parataxis
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 row	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 row	det
36	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 house	nmod
37	near	near	ADP	_	39 station	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 station	det
39	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 row	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	present · do-support	the guide book					of Babette's quiet life; with Babette's father and the mill; afterwards property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with father=Co-Agent
2	dwell	present	strangers			there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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