Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 25
Near to the farmhouse stood a large haystack, and between it and the house was a small shed, with a thatched roof. "
Who acts: haystack · What happens: stand, be, thatch · To what, where: large haystack, farmhouse, small shed
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haystack), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 4 farmhouse | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 farmhouse | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 farmhouse | det |
| 4 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 haystack | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 haystack | amod |
| 8 | haystack | haystack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shed | cc |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shed | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 house | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 it | conj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shed | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shed | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shed | amod |
| 19 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 roof | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 roof | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 roof | det |
| 23 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 roof | amod |
| 24 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a large haystack | the farmhouse | with a thatched roof | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent haystack=Theme near farmhouse=Destination | |||
| 2 | is a | past | haystack | a small shed | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | thatch | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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