Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 126

“Delightful!” shouted something close by; but no one, except the pewter soldier, saw that it was a piece of the hog's-leather hangings; it had lost all its gilding, it looked like a piece of wet clay, but it had an opinion, and it gave it:

Who acts: Delightful, one, iron · What happens: shout, see, be, lose, look, have · To what, where: something, piece, iron, opinion

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 (Delightful, one, iron), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Delightful	punct
2	Delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shouted	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Delightful	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Delightful	punct
5	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 shouted	obj
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	by	by	ADP	_	7 close	fixed
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 soldier	punct
14	except	except	ADP	_	17 soldier	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 soldier	det
16	pewter	pewter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 soldier	compound
17	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shouted	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 piece	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 piece	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 piece	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 piece	det
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	30 hangings	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hangings	det
27	hog's	hog's	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leather	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 hog's	punct
29	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hangings	compound
30	hangings	hanging	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 piece	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 lost	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lost	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 lost	aux
34	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 saw	conj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 gilding	det:predet
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 gilding	nmod:poss
37	gilding	gilding	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lost	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 looked	punct
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 looked	nsubj
40	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shouted	parataxis
41	like	like	ADP	_	43 piece	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 piece	det
43	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 looked	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 clay	case
45	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 clay	amod
46	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 piece	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 had	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 had	cc
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 had	nsubj
50	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 looked	conj
51	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 opinion	det
52	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 had	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 gave	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 gave	cc
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 gave	nsubj
56	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 looked	conj
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 gave	obj
58	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	Delightful	something		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
2	see	past	no one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	iron	a piece	of the leather hangings	tree rules
4	lose	past · perfect · passive		iron		tree rules
5	look	past	iron		like a piece of wet clay	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	have	past	iron	a opinion		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient
7	give	past	iron	opinion		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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