Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 74

What wooden scaffolding is that which they have set up there?” cried he involuntarily, as he looked at East Gate, which, in those days, was at the end of East Street.

Who acts: wooden scaffolding, scaffolding · What happens: scaffolding, be, set up, cry, look · To what, where: wooden scaffolding, end

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wooden scaffolding, scaffolding), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 scaffolding	nsubj
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scaffolding	amod
3	scaffolding	scaffolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cried	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 which	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 which	mark
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 set	nsubj:pass
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 set	nsubj:pass
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 set	aux
9	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 scaffolding	acl:relcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 set	compound:prt
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 set	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 involuntarily	nsubj
16	involuntarily	involuntarily	ADV	_	14 cried	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 looked	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 Gate	case
22	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Gate	compound
23	Gate	Gate	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 looked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 days	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 days	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 days	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 days	case
28	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 days	det
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 Gate	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 end	punct
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 end	cop
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 end	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 end	det
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cried	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Street	case
36	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Street	compound
37	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 end	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scaffolding							tree rules
2	is a	present		wooden scaffolding				tree rules
3	set up	present · perfect · passive		wooden scaffolding	there			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
4	cry speech: express in a quote	past	wooden scaffolding				involuntarily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look in a quote	past	scaffolding				at East Gate and that days	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gate=Theme
6	is in a quote	past				at the end	of East Street	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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