Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 81

He gazed at the street formerly so well known to him, and now so strange in appearance, and looked at the houses more attentively: most of them were of wood, slightly put together; and many had a thatched roof.

Who acts: Councillor, most, many · What happens: gaze, know, look, be, put together, have · To what, where: Councillor, thatched roof

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 (Councillor, most, many), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gazed	nsubj
2	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 street	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 street	det
5	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gazed	obl
6	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	2 gazed	advmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 known	advmod
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gazed	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 known	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 strange	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 strange	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 strange	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 strange	advmod
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gazed	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 appearance	case
18	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 strange	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looked	cc
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gazed	parataxis
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 houses	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 houses	det
24	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 looked	obl
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 attentively	advmod
26	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	21 looked	advmod
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 were	punct
28	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 were	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 most	nmod
31	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gazed	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 wood	case
33	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 were	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 put	punct
35	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	36 put	advmod
36	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 were	conj
37	together	together	ADV	_	36 put	advmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 had	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 had	cc
40	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gazed	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 roof	det
43	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 roof	amod
44	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 had	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	Councillor			at the street; formerly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at street=Theme
2	know	participle	Councillor not said here		Councillor	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	look	past				at the houses; attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at house=Theme
4	be	past	most of houses			of wood	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	put together	participle	most of houses not said here			slightly, together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	many	a thatched roof			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient
7	thatch	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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