Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 18

And the brass balls on the iron railings shone much brighter than ever; one would have thought they were polished on account of the visit; and it was as if the carved-out trumpeters--for there were trumpeters, who stood in tulips, carved out on the door--blew with all their might, their cheeks appeared so much rounder than before.

Who acts: visit, trumpeters, out trumpeters · What happens: shine, think, polish, carve, be, stand · To what, where: iron railings, brass balls, balls, account, out trumpeters, tulips · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (visit, trumpeters, out trumpeters), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 balls	det
3	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 balls	compound
4	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thought	nsubj:pass
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 railings	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 railings	det
7	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 railings	amod
8	railings	railing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 balls	nmod
9	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 railings	acl
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 brighter	advmod
11	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 shone	xcomp
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 ever	case
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 brighter	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
15	one	one	PRON	PronType=Ind	18 thought	nsubj:pass
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 thought	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	aux
18	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 polished	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 polished	aux:pass
21	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 thought	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 account	case
23	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 polished	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 visit	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 visit	det
26	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 account	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 trumpeters	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 trumpeters	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 trumpeters	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 trumpeters	cop
31	as	as	ADP	_	37 trumpeters	case
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 trumpeters	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 out	det
34	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 out	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 carved	punct
36	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 trumpeters	compound
37	trumpeters	trumpeter	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 appeared	nsubj
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 were	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 were	mark
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 were	expl
41	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 trumpeters	acl
42	trumpeters	trumpeter	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 were	nsubj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 stood	punct
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 stood	nsubj
45	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 trumpeters	acl:relcl
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 tulips	case
47	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 stood	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 carved	punct
49	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 tulips	acl
50	out	out	ADP	_	49 carved	compound:prt
51	on	on	ADP	_	53 door	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 door	det
53	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 carved	obl
54	--	--	PUNCT	_	55 blew	punct
55	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 trumpeters	conj
56	with	with	SCONJ	_	59 might	mark
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 might	det:predet
58	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 might	nmod:poss
59	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 blew	advcl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 cheeks	punct
61	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 cheeks	nmod:poss
62	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 trumpeters	conj
63	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thought	ccomp
64	so	so	ADV	_	65 much	advmod
65	much	much	ADV	_	66 rounder	advmod
66	rounder	round	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	63 appeared	xcomp
67	than	than	ADP	_	68 before	case
68	before	before	ADV	_	66 rounder	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	participle		the iron railings not said here		bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	would · perfect · passive		the brass balls on the iron railings			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
3	polish	past · passive		balls = ball	account of the visit		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
4	carve	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	visit			as out trumpeters and trumpeters's cheeks	tree rules
6	be	past	trumpeters	out trumpeters and trumpeters's cheeks not said here	there		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot trumpeter=Theme
7	stand	past	trumpeters		tulips		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tulip=Location
8	carve out	participle		tulips not said here	the door		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on door=Destination
9	blow	past	visit not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
10	appear	past	out trumpeters and trumpeters's cheeks			round property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	account			the visit			nom account «communication transitive»: of=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: «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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