Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 4

The narrow street with the high houses, was built so that the sunshine must fall there from morning till evening--it was really not to be borne.

Who acts: sunshine · What happens: build, fall, not be · To what, where: narrow street, sunshine

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunshine), 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	3 street	det
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 street	amod
3	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	nsubj:pass
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 houses	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 houses	det
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 houses	amod
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 street	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 street	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 built	aux:pass
10	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 fall	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sunshine	det
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fall	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fall	aux
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 built	advcl
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 fall	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 morning	case
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fall	obl
20	till	till	ADP	_	21 evening	case
21	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fall	obl
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 borne	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 borne	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 borne	cop
25	really	really	ADV	_	29 borne	advmod
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 borne	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	29 borne	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 borne	aux:pass
29	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 built	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		the narrow street with the high houses				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	fall	must	the sunshine		there	evening; morning		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	past · passive		sunshine			bear 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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