Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 1

In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house--it was almost three hundred years old, for that might be known by reading the great beam on which the date of the year was carved: together with tulips and hop-binds there were whole verses spelled as in former times, and over every window was a distorted face cut out in the beam.

Who acts: house, whole verses · What happens: be, know, read, carve, spell, distort · To what, where: street, that, great beam, date, whole verses, distorted face

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, whole verses), 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 street	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 street	det
3	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct
5	up	up	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 street	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 street	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 old	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 house	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 house	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	amod
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 old	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 old	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 old	cop
19	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 hundred	advmod
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hundred	compound
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 old	obl:unmarked
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 old	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 known	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 known	mark
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 known	nsubj:pass
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 known	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 known	aux:pass
29	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 old	parataxis
30	by	by	SCONJ	_	31 reading	mark
31	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 known	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 beam	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 beam	amod
34	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reading	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 carved	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 date	det
38	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 carved	nsubj:pass
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 year	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 year	det
41	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 date	nmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 carved	aux:pass
43	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 beam	acl:relcl
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 tulips	punct
45	together	together	ADV	_	47 tulips	advmod
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 tulips	case
47	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	parataxis
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 binds	cc
49	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 binds	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 hop	punct
51	binds	bind	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 tulips	conj
52	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	53 were	expl
53	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 tulips	parataxis
54	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 verses	amod
55	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 were	nsubj
56	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 verses	acl
57	as	as	ADP	_	60 times	case
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 times	case
59	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 times	amod
60	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 spelled	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 face	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 face	cc
63	over	over	ADP	_	65 window	case
64	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	65 window	det
65	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 face	obl
66	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 face	cop
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 face	det
68	distorted	distort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	69 face	amod
69	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 tulips	conj
70	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	69 face	acl
71	out	out	ADP	_	70 cut	compound:prt
72	in	in	ADP	_	74 beam	case
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 beam	det
74	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 cut	obl
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			the street		a old house obl; old property	tree rules
2	is	past	house			year	old property	tree rules
3	know	might · passive		that				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
4	read	gerund		the great beam				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beam=Topic
5	carve	past · passive		the date of the year	the great beam			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination
6	be	past	whole verses		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	spell	participle		whole verses not said here		time		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent
8	distort	participle						vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
9	is a	past		a distorted face	every window			tree rules
10	cut out	participle		a distorted face not said here	the beam			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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