Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 34

The old house, with its balcony of wickerwork, and the bench at the top of the high steps, under the lime-tree, was considered, by the road-inspectors, too old and rotten to be left standing.

What happens: consider, leave, stand · To what, where: old house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. 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 house	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 considered	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 balcony	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 balcony	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 balcony	nmod:poss
7	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 wickerwork	case
9	wickerwork	wickerwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 balcony	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bench	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bench	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bench	det
13	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 top	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 top	det
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bench	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 steps	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 steps	det
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 steps	amod
20	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 top	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tree	punct
22	under	under	ADP	_	26 tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
24	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tree	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 lime	punct
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 house	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 considered	aux:pass
29	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 inspectors	punct
31	by	by	ADP	_	35 inspectors	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 inspectors	det
33	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 inspectors	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 road	punct
35	inspectors	inspector	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 considered	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 old	punct
37	too	too	ADV	_	38 old	advmod
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 considered	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 rotten	cc
40	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 old	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	43 left	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 left	aux:pass
43	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 rotten	advcl
44	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 left	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	consider	past · passive	the old house and the bench at the top of the high steps and the lime tree	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	leave	to-infinitive · passive		tree rules
3	stand	gerund		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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