Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 94

And he touched the walls, and they widened out, and she saw the organ which was playing; she saw the old pictures of the preachers and the preachers' wives.

Who acts: God, walls, same, organ · What happens: touch, widen out, see, play · To what, where: walls, organ, old pictures

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, walls, same, organ), 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	_	3 touched	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touched	nsubj
3	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 walls	det
5	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 touched	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 widened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 widened	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 widened	nsubj
9	widened	widen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 touched	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 widened	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 widened	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 organ	det
16	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 playing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 playing	aux
19	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 organ	acl:relcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 touched	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pictures	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pictures	amod
25	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 saw	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 preachers	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 preachers	det
28	preachers	preacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pictures	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wives	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 preachers	det
31	preachers	preacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 wives	nmod:poss
32	'	's	PART	_	31 preachers	case
33	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 preachers	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	touch	past	God	the walls	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme
2	widen out	past	walls = wall		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	see	past	same	the organ	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer organ=Stimulus
4	play	past · progressive	the organ		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	past	same	the old pictures of the preachers and the preachers's wives	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus

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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