Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 3

All the other houses in the street were so new and so neat, with large window panes and smooth walls, one could easily see that they would have nothing to do with the old house: they certainly thought, “How long is that old decayed thing to stand here as a spectacle in the street?

Who acts: other houses, one, walls, old · What happens: be, see, have, do, think, decay · To what, where: nothing, thing · 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 (other houses, one, walls, old), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 houses	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 houses	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 houses	amod
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 new	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 houses	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 new	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 new	advmod
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 neat	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 neat	advmod
13	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 new	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 panes	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 panes	case
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 panes	amod
17	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 panes	compound
18	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 new	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 walls	cc
20	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 walls	amod
21	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 panes	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
23	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
25	easily	easily	ADV	_	26 see	advmod
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 new	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 have	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 see	advcl
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 have	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 nothing	acl
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 house	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 house	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 house	amod
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	obl
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 thought	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 thought	nsubj
40	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	41 thought	advmod
41	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 new	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 long	punct
43	“	"	PUNCT	_	45 long	punct
44	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	45 long	advmod
45	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 thought	advmod
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 long	cop
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 decayed	mark
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 decayed	nsubj
49	decayed	decay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 thought	advcl
50	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 decayed	obj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 stand	mark
52	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 decayed	xcomp
53	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 stand	advmod
54	as	as	ADP	_	56 spectacle	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 spectacle	det
56	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 stand	obl
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 street	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 street	det
59	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 spectacle	nmod
60	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 new	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all other houses in the street			with large window panes and smooth walls; new property	tree rules
2	be		all other houses in the street not said here				tree rules
3	see	could	one			easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	would	walls = wall	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	walls = wall not said here	nothing not said here		with the old house	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	past	walls = wall			certainly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present				long property	tree rules
8	decay in a quote	past	old	thing			tree rules
9	stand in a quote	to-infinitive	old not said here		here	as a spectacle in the street	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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