Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 61
From here a flight of steps led down to a court, where from a well water was drawn up by iron rollers to the different stories of the house, and where the water-buckets hung side by side.
Who acts: side · What happens: lead down, draw up, hang · To what, where: steps, well water, water buckets
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (side), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 here | case |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flight | det |
| 4 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 here | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 steps | case |
| 6 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flight | nmod |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 steps | acl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 led | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 court | det |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drawn | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 drawn | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 16 | well | well | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 water | amod |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drawn | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 drawn | aux:pass |
| 19 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 steps | acl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 drawn | compound:prt |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 rollers | case |
| 22 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rollers | compound |
| 23 | rollers | roller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drawn | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 stories | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stories | det |
| 26 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stories | amod |
| 27 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drawn | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 house | det |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stories | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hung | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 hung | cc |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 hung | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 buckets | det |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 buckets | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 water | punct |
| 37 | buckets | bucket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 here | conj |
| 39 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hung | xcomp |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 side | case |
| 41 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hung | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead down | participle | steps not said here | to a court | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to court=Patient | ||||
| 2 | draw up | past · passive | a well water | by iron rollers; to the different stories of the house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: from water=Initial_Location to story=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hang | participle · passive | side | the water buckets | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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