Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 89

And several drawers were opened, and the piano was opened; it had landscapes on the inside of the lid, and it was so hoarse when the old man played on it! and then he hummed a song.

Who acts: piano, old man · What happens: open, have, be, play, hum · To what, where: several drawers, piano, landscapes, inside, old man, song

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 (piano, old man), 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	_	5 opened	cc
2	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drawers	amod
3	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opened	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	aux:pass
5	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 opened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 opened	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 piano	det
9	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 opened	aux:pass
11	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 opened	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	conj
15	landscapes	landscape	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 inside	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 inside	det
18	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 lid	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lid	det
21	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inside	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hoarse	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hoarse	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hoarse	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hoarse	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 hoarse	advmod
27	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 opened	conj
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 hummed	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hummed	nsubj
32	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 man	acl
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 played	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 hummed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 hummed	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 hummed	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hummed	nsubj
39	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hoarse	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 song	det
41	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hummed	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past · passive		several drawers				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	open	past · passive		the piano				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have	past	piano	landscapes	the inside of the lid			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landscape=Patient
4	is	past	piano				hoarse property	tree rules
5	play	participle		the old man not said here	piano			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hum	past	the old man	a song		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic

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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