Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 21

In olden times, Hauschen Street was not paved, and passengers would stumble out of one hole into another, as they generally do in unfrequented highways; and the street was so narrow, and the booths leaning against each other were so close together, that in the summer time a sail would be stretched across the street from one booth to another opposite.

Who acts: passengers, street, booths · What happens: not pave, stumble, do, be, lean, stretch · To what, where: Hauschen Street, one hole, unfrequented highways, each, sail, street

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (passengers, street, booths), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 times	case
2	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 paved	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 times	punct
5	Hauschen	Hauschen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Street	compound
6	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 paved	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 paved	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 paved	advmod
9	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stumble	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stumble	cc
12	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stumble	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stumble	aux
14	stumble	stumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 paved	parataxis
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 hole	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 hole	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hole	nummod
18	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stumble	obl
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 hole	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 do	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
24	generally	generally	ADV	_	25 do	advmod
25	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 stumble	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 highways	case
27	unfrequented	unfrequented	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 highways	amod
28	highways	highway	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 do	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 narrow	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 narrow	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 street	det
32	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 narrow	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 narrow	cop
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 narrow	advmod
35	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 paved	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 close	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 close	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 booths	det
39	booths	booth	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 close	nsubj
40	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 booths	acl
41	against	against	ADP	_	42 each	case
42	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	40 leaning	obl
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 each	fixed
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 close	cop
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 close	advmod
46	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 narrow	conj
47	together	together	ADV	_	46 close	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 stretched	punct
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 stretched	mark
50	in	in	ADP	_	53 time	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 time	det
52	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 time	compound
53	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 stretched	obl
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 sail	det
55	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 stretched	nsubj:pass
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 stretched	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 stretched	aux:pass
58	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 paved	conj
59	across	across	ADP	_	61 street	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 street	det
61	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 stretched	obl
62	from	from	ADP	_	64 booth	case
63	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	64 booth	nummod
64	booth	booth	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 stretched	obl
65	to	to	ADP	_	67 opposite	case
66	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	67 opposite	det
67	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 booth	nmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 paved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pave	past · passive		Hauschen Street		time		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	stumble	would	passengers		one hole into another			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hole=Trajectory
3	do	present	passengers = passenger		unfrequented highways		generally property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the street				narrow property	tree rules
5	lean	gerund	the booths not said here		each			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against each=Location
6	is	past	the booths				close, together property	tree rules
7	stretch	would · passive		a sail	the street	time	from one booth to another opposite	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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