Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 37

“Yonder, at the broker's,” said the old man, “where there are so many pictures hanging.

Who acts: old man, many pictures · What happens: say, be, hang · To what, where: broker · 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 (old man, many pictures), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Yonder	yonder	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yonder	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 broker	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 broker	det
6	broker	broker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 broker	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 broker	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 broker	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 are	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 are	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 are	advmod
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 are	expl
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 many	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pictures	amod
21	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 are	nsubj
22	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 pictures	acl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old man	the broker	yonder property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	does in a quote	present	many pictures	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hang in a quote	gerund	many pictures not said here			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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