Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 174

The windows of the house were broader at the bottom than at the top, and when the sparrows looked through them, every room appeared to them like a tulip with the brightest colours and shades.

Who acts: windows, sparrows, room · What happens: be, look, appear · To what, where: bottom, 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 (windows, sparrows, room), 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 windows	det
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 broader	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 windows	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 broader	cop
7	broader	broad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 bottom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottom	det
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broader	obl
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 top	case
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broader	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looked	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 looked	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sparrows	det
19	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 broader	parataxis
21	through	through	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 appeared	punct
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 room	det
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 appeared	nsubj
26	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 looked	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 appeared	obl
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 tulip	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tulip	det
31	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 appeared	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 colours	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 colours	det
34	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 colours	amod
35	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tulip	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 shades	cc
37	shades	shade	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 colours	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 broader	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the windows of the house		the bottom	than the top; broad property	tree rules
2	look	past	the sparrows			through colours = colour	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through they=Theme
3	appear	past	every room	colours = colour		like a tulip with the brightest colours and shades	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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