Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 184

There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales.

Who acts: Maia, house · What happens: have, dwell · To what, where: nest, window, writer

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maia, house), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 had	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nest	det
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 window	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 dwelt	nsubj
14	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 house	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 writer	det
16	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dwelt	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 tales	case
18	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tales	compound
19	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 writer	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Maia	a nest		the window of a house; there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient
2	dwell	past	a house	the writer of fairy tales					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme writer=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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