Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 6

They were perhaps a little higher, and had windows; but the panes consisted of horn or bladder-skins, for glass was then too dear to have glazed windows in every house.

Who acts: Hauschen, panes, glass · What happens: be, have, consist, glaze · To what, where: windows, house

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 (Hauschen, panes, glass), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 higher	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 higher	cop
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 higher	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 higher	obl:unmarked
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 higher	conj
10	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 consisted	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 consisted	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 panes	det
14	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 consisted	nsubj
15	consisted	consist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 higher	advcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 horn	case
17	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 consisted	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 skins	cc
19	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 skins	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 bladder	punct
21	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 horn	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dear	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	28 dear	case
24	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dear	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dear	cop
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 dear	advmod
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 dear	advmod
28	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 consisted	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	31 glazed	mark
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 glazed	aux
31	glazed	glaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 dear	advcl
32	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 glazed	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 house	case
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 house	det
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 glazed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 higher	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hauschen				a little obl:unmarked; high, perhaps property	tree rules
2	have	past	Hauschen not said here	windows				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient
3	consist	participle	the panes				of horn or bladder skins	tree rules
4	is	past	glass			then	dear property	tree rules
5	glaze	to-infinitive · perfect	glass not said here	windows	every house			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent window=Destination

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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