Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 119

In the spring; they began to pull the house itself down; people called it complete rubbish.

Who acts: portraits, people · What happens: begin, pull down, call · To what, where: house, shop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portraits, people), 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 spring	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spring	det
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 spring	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pull	mark
8	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pull	obj
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	10 house	nmod:unmarked
12	down	down	ADP	_	8 pull	compound:prt
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 called	nsubj
15	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	obj
17	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rubbish	amod
18	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	begin	past	portraits = portrait		spring	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	pull down	to-infinitive	portraits = portrait not said here	the house shop		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	call	past	people	shop		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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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