Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 2
In the midst of this spot stood a house, built with the bones of shipwrecked human beings.
What happens: stand, build, shipwreck · To what, where: house, midst
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 spot | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 spot | det |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 built | punct |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 house | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 bones | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bones | det |
| 14 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 built | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 beings | case |
| 16 | shipwrecked | shipwreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 beings | amod |
| 17 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beings | amod |
| 18 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bones | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a house | the midst of this spot | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in midst=Destination | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | a house not said here | with the bones of shipwrecked human beings | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with bone=Source | ||||
| 3 | shipwreck | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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