Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 27

They inhabited two garrets; and where the roof of the one house joined that of the other, and the gutter ran along the extreme end of it, there was to each house a small window: one needed only to step over the gutter to get from one window to the other.

Who acts: parents, roof, gutter, one · What happens: inhabit, join, run, be, need, step · To what, where: two garrets, extreme end, small window, gutter, one window

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, roof, gutter, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 inhabited	nsubj
2	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 garrets	nummod
4	garrets	garret	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inhabited	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 joined	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 joined	cc
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 joined	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 joined	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	compound
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roof	nmod
14	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 inhabited	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 other	mark
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 other	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 other	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 joined	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ran	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gutter	det
22	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 window	advcl
24	along	along	ADP	_	27 end	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 end	det
26	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 end	amod
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ran	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 end	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 was	punct
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 window	cop
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 house	case
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 house	det
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 was	obl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 window	det
37	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 window	amod
38	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inhabited	obl
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 needed	punct
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 needed	nsubj
41	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 inhabited	conj
42	only	only	ADV	_	44 step	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 step	mark
44	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 needed	xcomp
45	over	over	ADP	_	47 gutter	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 gutter	det
47	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 step	obl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 get	mark
49	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 step	advcl
50	from	from	ADP	_	52 window	case
51	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 window	nummod
52	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 get	obl
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 other	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 other	det
55	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 get	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 inhabited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inhabit	past	parents = parent	two garrets				tree rules
2	join	past	the roof of the one house				of the other	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	run	past	the gutter			along the extreme end of roof		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along end=Trajectory
4	is a	past		a small window				tree rules
5	need	past	one					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	step not said to happen	to-infinitive	one not said here		the gutter			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over gutter=Trajectory
7	get	to-infinitive	one not said here		one window		to the other	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from window=Initial_Location to other=Destination

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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