Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 98

The windows were quite frozen, the little boy was obliged to sit and breathe on them to get a peep-hole over to the old house, and there the snow had been blown into all the carved work and inscriptions; it lay quite up over the steps, just as if there was no one at home--nor was there any one at home--the old man was dead!

Who acts: snow, old man · What happens: freeze, oblige, sit, breathe, get, blow · To what, where: windows, little boy, peep hole, snow, carved work, home

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 (snow, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 windows	det
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frozen	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	aux:pass
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 frozen	advmod
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	67 one	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 obliged	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 obliged	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 obliged	aux:pass
11	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 frozen	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sit	mark
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 obliged	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 breathe	cc
15	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sit	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 breathe	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 breathe	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hole	det
21	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hole	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 peep	punct
23	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obj
24	over	over	ADV	_	28 house	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 house	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 house	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 house	amod
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 blown	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 blown	cc
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 blown	expl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 snow	det
33	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 blown	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 blown	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 blown	aux:pass
36	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 frozen	conj
37	into	into	ADP	_	41 work	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 work	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 work	det
40	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 work	amod
41	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 blown	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 inscriptions	cc
43	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 work	conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 lay	punct
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 lay	nsubj
46	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	parataxis
47	quite	quite	ADV	_	48 up	advmod
48	up	up	ADV	_	46 lay	advmod
49	over	over	ADP	_	51 steps	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 steps	det
51	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 lay	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 one	punct
53	just	just	ADV	_	59 one	advmod
54	as	as	ADP	_	59 one	case
55	if	if	SCONJ	_	57 was	mark
56	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	57 was	expl
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 one	cop
58	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	59 one	det
59	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 lay	parataxis
60	at	at	ADP	_	61 home	case
61	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 one	nmod
62	--	--	PUNCT	_	64 was	punct
63	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	64 was	cc
64	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 one	cop
65	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	64 was	expl
66	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	67 one	det
67	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
68	at	at	ADP	_	69 home	case
69	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 one	nmod
70	--	--	PUNCT	_	75 dead	punct
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 man	det
72	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 man	amod
73	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 dead	nsubj
74	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 dead	cop
75	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 one	advcl
76	!	!	PUNCT	_	67 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · passive		the windows			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	oblige	past · passive		the little boy			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	sit	to-infinitive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	breathe	infinitive				on crevices = crevice	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination
5	get	to-infinitive		a peep hole		to the old house	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus
6	blow	past · perfect · passive		the snow	all carved work and inscriptions; there		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into work=Product
7	carve	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	lie	past	snow			over the steps	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over step=Location
9	is	past			home	as no one	tree rules
10	is a	past		any frozen one	home		tree rules
11	is	past	the old man			dead property	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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