Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 15

The extensive building is separated from the street by a pretty high railing, the thick iron bars of which are so far apart, that in all seriousness, it is said, some very thin fellow had of a night occasionally squeezed himself through to go and pay his little visits in the town.

Who acts: pretty high railing, thin fellow, fellow · What happens: separate, be, say, have, squeeze, go · To what, where: extensive building, seriousness, building, fellow, little visits, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty high railing, thin fellow, fellow), 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 building	det
2	extensive	extensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 building	amod
3	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 separated	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 separated	aux:pass
5	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 street	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 street	det
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 separated	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 railing	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 railing	det
11	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 railing	amod
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 railing	amod
13	railing	railing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 separated	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bars	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bars	det
16	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bars	amod
17	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bars	compound
18	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 railing	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 apart	obl
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 apart	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 apart	advmod
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 apart	advmod
24	apart	apart	ADV	_	18 bars	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 apart	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 apart	fixed
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 seriousness	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 seriousness	det
29	seriousness	seriousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 apart	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 said	aux:pass
33	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 separated	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 fellow	det
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 thin	advmod
37	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fellow	amod
38	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 night	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 night	det
42	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obl
43	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	44 squeezed	advmod
44	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 had	advcl
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 squeezed	obj
46	through	through	ADV	_	44 squeezed	advmod
47	to	to	PART	_	48 go	mark
48	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 squeezed	advcl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 pay	cc
50	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 go	conj
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 visits	nmod:poss
52	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 visits	amod
53	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 pay	obj
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 town	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 town	det
56	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 pay	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 separated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	separate	present · passive	a pretty high railing	the extensive building			from the street	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient from street=Co-Patient
2	is	present			all seriousness		of the thick iron bars; apart, far property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present · passive		building				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	have	past	some thin fellow			night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	squeeze	past	some thin fellow not said here	fellow			occasionally, through property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
6	go	to-infinitive	some thin fellow not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pay	infinitive	some thin fellow not said here	fellow's little visits	the town			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
8	visit		fellow					nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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