Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 93

The doors were fastened with a loop of string; the floor of the rooms presented a stone paving half torn up; bats fluttered wildly about the ceiling; and as to the smell therein--no--that was beyond description.

Who acts: floor, stone, bats, that · What happens: fasten, present, pave, tear up, flutter, be · To what, where: doors, stone, half

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floor, stone, bats, that), 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	2 doors	det
2	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fastened	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fastened	aux:pass
4	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 loop	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 loop	det
7	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fastened	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 string	case
9	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loop	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 presented	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 presented	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 rooms	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rooms	det
15	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 floor	nmod
16	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fastened	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stone	det
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 presented	obj
19	paving	pave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 stone	acl
20	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 paving	obj
21	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 half	acl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 torn	compound:prt
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 fluttered	punct
24	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fluttered	nsubj
25	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 presented	conj
26	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	25 fluttered	advmod
27	about	about	ADP	_	29 ceiling	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ceiling	det
29	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fluttered	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 smell	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 smell	cc
32	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	35 smell	case
33	to	to	ADP	_	32 as	fixed
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 smell	det
35	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fastened	parataxis
36	therein	therein	ADV	_	35 smell	advmod
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 description	punct
38	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	43 description	discourse
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 no	punct
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 description	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 description	cop
42	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	43 description	case
43	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 smell	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fasten	past · passive		the doors	with a loop of string	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with loop=Co-Patient
2	present	past	the floor of the rooms	a stone		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	pave	gerund	a stone not said here	half		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme half=Destination
4	tear up	participle		half not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	flutter	past	bats		about the ceiling; wildly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about ceiling=Location
6	is	past	that		beyond description	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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