Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 173

There was a large house painted in many gay colours standing close to the castle and the canal, upon which latter were to be seen many ships laden with apples and pottery.

Who acts: large house, many gay colours, many ships · What happens: be, paint, stand, see, laden · To what, where: large house, many gay colours

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large house, many gay colours, many ships), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 house	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 colours	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 colours	amod
9	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 colours	amod
10	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 painted	obl
11	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 colours	acl
12	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 standing	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 canal	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 canal	det
18	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 castle	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seen	punct
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 seen	obl
22	latter	latte	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 seen	advmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	26 seen	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 seen	aux:pass
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 painted	conj
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ships	amod
28	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 laden	nsubj
29	laden	laden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	parataxis
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 apples	case
31	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 laden	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pottery	cc
33	pottery	pottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 apples	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a large house		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	paint	participle		a large house not said here	many gay colours		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in colour=Destination
3	stand	gerund	many gay colours not said here			to the castle and the canal; close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past · passive				latte property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
5	laden	present	many ships			with apples and pottery	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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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