Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 6
The gable end of one of these houses faced the street, and with its small, narrow windows, presented a very mean appearance.
What happens: face, present · To what, where: gable end, mean appearance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 end | det |
| 2 | gable | gable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 end | amod |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 faced | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 faced | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 houses | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 houses | det |
| 8 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 faced | obl |
| 9 | faced | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 street | det |
| 11 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 faced | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 presented | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 presented | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 windows | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 windows | nmod:poss |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 windows | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 small | punct |
| 18 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 windows | amod |
| 19 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 presented | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 windows | punct |
| 21 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 faced | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 appearance | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 mean | advmod |
| 24 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 appearance | amod |
| 25 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 presented | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 faced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | past | the gable end | of one; of this houses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme street=Destination | ||||
| 2 | present | past | a mean appearance | with town's small narrow windows | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent appearance=Recipient with window=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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