Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 9

That was a house to look at; and there lived an old man, who wore plush breeches; and he had a coat with large brass buttons, and a wig that one could see was a real wig.

Who acts: That, old man, man, one, wig · What happens: be, look, live, wear, have, see · To what, where: house, old man, plush breeches, coat, wig, real wig

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 (That, old man, man, one), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 house	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 house	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 house	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	6 look	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lived	cc
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 lived	advmod
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 house	parataxis
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wore	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 wore	nsubj
17	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 man	acl:relcl
18	plush	plush	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 breeches	amod
19	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wore	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lived	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 coat	det
25	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 buttons	case
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 buttons	amod
28	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 buttons	compound
29	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 coat	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 wig	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 wig	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wig	det
33	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wig	nsubj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 see	obj
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 see	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 see	aux
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wig	acl:relcl
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 wig	cop
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 wig	det
40	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 wig	amod
41	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 house	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a house			tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	live	past		a old man	there		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
4	wear	past	a old man	plush breeches			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent breech=Source
5	have	past	man	a coat		with large brass buttons	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
6	see	could	one	a wig			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
7	is a	past	a wig	a real wig			tree rules

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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