Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 8

And when he looked across at the wall where the mortar had fallen out, he could sit and find out there the strangest figures imaginable; exactly as the street had appeared before, with steps, projecting windows, and pointed gables; he could see soldiers with halberds, and spouts where the water ran, like dragons and serpents.

Who acts: boy, mortar, street, water · What happens: look, fall out, sit, find out, appear, project · To what, where: spouts, strangest figures, pointed gables, windows, soldiers

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 (boy, mortar, street, water), 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 sit	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sit	advcl
5	across	across	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 fallen	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mortar	det
11	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fallen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fallen	aux
13	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 wall	acl:relcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 fallen	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sit	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sit	aux
18	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 find	cc
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sit	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 find	compound:prt
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 find	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 figures	det
24	strangest	strange	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 figures	amod
25	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 find	obj
26	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 find	xcomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 appeared	punct
28	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	33 appeared	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 appeared	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 street	det
31	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 appeared	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 appeared	aux
33	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sit	conj
34	before	before	ADV	_	33 appeared	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 steps	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 steps	case
37	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 appeared	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 projecting	punct
39	projecting	project	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 appeared	advcl
40	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 projecting	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 gables	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 gables	cc
43	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 gables	amod
44	gables	gable	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 appeared	obl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 see	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 see	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 see	aux
48	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sit	conj
49	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 see	obj
50	with	with	ADP	_	51 halberds	case
51	halberds	halberd	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 see	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 spouts	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 spouts	cc
54	spouts	spout	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sit	obl
55	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	58 ran	advmod
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 water	det
57	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 ran	nsubj
58	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 spouts	acl:relcl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 dragons	punct
60	like	like	ADP	_	61 dragons	case
61	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 ran	obl
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 serpents	cc
63	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 dragons	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	boy			at the wall; across property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wall=Theme
2	fall out	past · perfect	the mortar				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	could	boy	spouts			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find out	infinitive	boy not said here	the strangest figures	there	imaginable property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Topic
5	appear	past · perfect	the street	pointed gables		with steps; before, exactly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	project	gerund	the street not said here	windows			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent window=Value
7	see	could	boy	soldiers		with halberds	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus
8	run	past	the water			like dragons and serpents	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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