Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 1

Close to the corner of a street, among other abodes of poverty, stood an exceedingly tall, narrow house, which had been so knocked about by time that it seemed out of joint in every direction.

Who acts: it · What happens: stand, knock about, seem · To what, where: tall narrow house, time, joint

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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	Close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 corner	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 corner	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corner	det
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 corner	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 abodes	punct
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 abodes	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 abodes	amod
11	abodes	abode	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 corner	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 poverty	case
13	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 abodes	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 corner	punct
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 house	det
17	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	18 tall	advmod
18	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 house	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tall	punct
20	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 house	amod
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knocked	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 knocked	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 knocked	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 knocked	aux:pass
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 knocked	advmod
27	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 house	acl
28	about	about	ADV	_	27 knocked	advmod
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 time	case
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knocked	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 seemed	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seemed	nsubj
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 time	acl:relcl
34	out	out	ADP	_	36 joint	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 joint	case
36	joint	joint	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seemed	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 direction	case
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	39 direction	det
39	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seemed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a tall narrow house			to the corner of a street and other abodes of poverty	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
2	knock about	past · perfect · passive		a tall narrow house		time	about property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
3	seem	past	it	time not said here	joint		in every direction	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute

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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