Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 104
One could see from the street right into the room with the hog's-leather hanging, which was slashed and torn; and the green grass and leaves about the balcony hung quite wild about the falling beams.
Who acts: One, green grass · What happens: see, slash, tear, leave, hang, fall · To what, where: street, leather hanging
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 (One, green grass), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 street | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 street | det |
| 6 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 room | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 hanging | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hanging | det |
| 13 | hog's | hog's | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leather | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 hog's | punct |
| 15 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hanging | compound |
| 16 | hanging | hanging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 room | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slashed | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 slashed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 slashed | aux:pass |
| 20 | slashed | slash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hanging | acl:relcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 torn | cc |
| 22 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 slashed | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 hung | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hung | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 grass | det |
| 26 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grass | amod |
| 27 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hung | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 leaves | cc |
| 29 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 grass | acl:relcl |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 balcony | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 balcony | det |
| 32 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leaves | obl |
| 33 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 34 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 35 wild | advmod |
| 35 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hung | xcomp |
| 36 | about | about | ADP | _ | 39 beams | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 beams | det |
| 38 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 beams | amod |
| 39 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 wild | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | One | the street | into the room with the leather hanging | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | slash | past · passive | the leather hanging | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | leave | present | the green grass not said here | about the balcony | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about balcony=Location | ||||
| 5 | hang | past | the green grass | wild property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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